The Cairo bulletin., 1909-06-09

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n AIMED, til e
chains loosened.
and as we darted off down the cur
rent, our whoops OF JOY reverberated
along the banks 1t was Junetime
morning in Already Swallows darted
hither and thither across our watery
path and a raucous kingfisher scolded
in aerial measures as he shrieked his
native war cry.
On and on we foated through an
Eden of silver and green, by birds that
caroled, where gnarled oaks did their
yigils on the sentried shore and where
the willows, yellow and red, laved
their plumes in the singing stream.
At noon We paused beneath a spread
Ing Eastwood tree and ate ravenously
Of the food that mother made. Appe-
tites? Ravenous! The starved wolf
could have no more. Digestion? AS
perfect as the main spring of costly
watch,
And then on again to where tho
banks were high and the woodland
spread its cooling shade in phantasy
across the pulsing waters Christie,
pher Columbus could have felt no
greater joys of discovery than those
which permeated our beings and found
exhaust In splitting yells of victory,
How the forest rang with our shouts.
and the squirrel chartered his den
anee Turtles slipped hurriedly off
their summing logs and splashed into
The ripping stream Sinners darted
here and there in wanton fright at the
/ invasion,
"Lookee, Lookee! Here's clubs
fer bait"
Then up the steep bank We toiled
and tugged, with many a grunt and
brag Of prowess And at last we stood
within our wonderland, beneath the
towering elms, beside the haw trees
and the scraggly cherry. Like beavers
we fell TO driving stakes In an hour
our tent was up. our fire lighted and
onr duties allotted.
That night under the trees in the
glow of the fire we told our boyish
stories of adventure and delight,
stories of brave knights and beautiful
ladies'. And as we listened
Zach heart recalled a different name
But all sang Annie Laurie, "
And then someone told ghost
story. Imperceptibly, almost, we drew
closer about the fire and only the
bravest went into the darkness for
more faggots
Above MS stars we're glintiug like
/ tapers against a background of softest
velvet and through the trees gentle
/ b~eezes soughed their drowsy mono
tones. One by one we stole in to bed
but not to sleep.
Nh, thetricks we PLAYED and the pill
low fights we had that night
! At the oncoming of Aurora's car we
arose without the mother call, slipped
! into our clothing and were off down
! the path to the fishing hole. BY break
/ fast time we had fresh fish from the
great market of Nature. How we
/ fused and blow about the breakfast
/ fire. Wloirg IL SCOT from our faces
/ and the tears from our eyes Chatter
! ing we fell to the meal with lusty rel
/ ish
But why dwell upon the picture?
! throughout the days and nights that
followed we did what You would have
done i'm tho golden days of long ago!
/ We know no care. and ambition was
/ but merely feCking MS with its whip
/ There in the shade and the sunlight
we turned the wheel Of pleasure
through the fleeting hours of gladness
turned It until mothers beans and
mothers bread were gone 10 the last
bean and the last slice Butterflies
upon a blossom scented zephyr. We
waited gaily through vale of glory.
And then the wagon came, and the
men loaded our boats and our tent. on,
emptv dishes and our fshpoles-a and
hroueht me back to this, back to the
cogging wheels and the presses hum
ming. back to the goad and the filth
and the aspirations of life in their un
folding. Willingly | take up the duty
"a a man should take 1t Up. but ever
and anon my heart yearns for the OLD
scow and the carefree days OF yes
terday!
{. o aIr'"h
Just Because.
Live todav's troubles to3ay. not to
norrow's troubles today,
The fellow with a crouch is always
easv money for the devil
Almost any skate can get SONS
women TO fall in love with him
Some fellows spend more time pull
ing others down than they do trying
10 climb up
-DYPON WILLIAMS