The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-12-02
g ems In Verse

The Four Leaved Clover,
Il 81 know a place where the sun In like gold
And the cherry blooms burst with snow.
And down underneath is the loveliest
nook
Where the four leaved cloyers grow.
One leaf Ii for hope, and one Is for faith,
And one Is for love- you know.
And God put another one for luck
80 II you search you will find where they
grow.
Bat you mnst have hope. and you must
have faith;
YoI must love and be strong, and so.
II you work, II you wait, you VIII md
Fl, the place
yhere the four leawed clovers grow.
d, .-Ellas 5aigginson in IF ilaaelphia Press.
A Dakota Harvest Field.
cl:every side the golden stubble stretches.
I.ooped and laced with siiyery spiders
From stalk to stalk the swapping insects
leap!ng
Add sparks OF glitterjng fire to gold and
silver haze,
Their clicking fight the only sounds of
living
j In all the deepening solemn hush
OF flooding, failing light through droop-
Ing. dreamy grain.
Hhe sweet warm light grows every mo-
nent richer.
Ever more eonoros,s the damp and hollow
air.
And now there comes the clatter OF the
Z reaper
And loud and CHEEKY urging of tn. tired
teams.
Around, unseen. The choir of evening
crichets
Deepens and wIdens with the fading dusk.
\ And diHtant calls to supper reach acroas
the tangled grain.
4 The overarching majesty of purple clouds
grows Brighter,
A Soaring above In seas OF green and blue
"a tumbled mountain land of cloud crags,
fired and lighted
TO glowing bronze and red and yellow
q gold.
And through the grain the reaper still
goes forward.
h Ard still the crickets chirp and insects
leap
And overhead the glory of the sunlight
turns to gray.
.-HaIhlin Garland In Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mustard Greens.
There's 5es' dead loads of garden sass
that's pieasin' to the taste
That seems to fill a achin' void inside !
felIerss waist.
There's carrots an. there's cabbages an
lettuce by the ton
An pa'snips. collyfower an Hch that
some think takes the tun.
THERE'S young an tender onions too, that
everybody knows
Has ofn interposed to keep the gals from
ketchin' beaus.
But none o. these spring shingumbobs kin
fill the magazines
That natui placed inside our midst like
good or mustard greens.
In corners O the OF rail fence back homo
they nst to grow
An long the little inedder brook. 30
peacefni IN its fow.
An mother an the gala ] wade through
deEy grass 10 find
Thai s6xnry we loved the best OF all the
- greenish kind
WhEn proper cooked with homemade
pork they had a wang jes' right
70 fech the tender places in a feliers APP
pytite.
4 Ie asaru yearnfn' to go back toward
them boyhood scenes
{ les thtuk1n' how we ust To feed on snap
py mustard green's.
Bone other bold. aspirin weeds that
sonlntiuses TUX the place
\ q. this surpassin. feed a Teller passea In
through MS face
Want bad material on u,,t.::; 10 chaw.
WI b I, We viii ADMIT.
But none OF en- could tech the spot IKE
that %, favorit
.ambs auskter tasted ruther fine an beet
tops wasn't bad,
a An turnip tops. when gethered in their
tnfancy, ID pad
I, Tire stomach in pleasm' way. but tell to
* ae marines B Ks
81 Yes yArnss sbont EN- bsin' up to good or
4nststard green's.
y rne Eng 4shman kin have his beef, tho
Frenfhrnan haye his frog. d ~
lsfno asishsnan his meaiy spuds, the Indian
5s5 z his dog, & ii e.-,--'--e
se zau his bottle an his bird. ef ho lin
stand tho price.
"A ne SuofohniAn have his porridgc mash
ne Chink his snowy rice.
NfThasTaw MiRsourian hia pone the Jera.v
its his CLAIMS.
hdN Dixie coon his 'possum bird stuffed
u FULL q yeller yams. o. "a
y The preacher have his chicken pie the
nostonee his beans,
But gracious Master, let us have our ROOD
III Of mustard greens! 5s
Denver Post.