The Coconino sun., 1922-12-15
A UNIQUE WILL THAT
 HAS MUCH MERIT

Here's an oldtimer, but is worth
 printing again:
 I, John Doe, being of sound mind
 and disposing memory, do hereby
 make and publish this my last will ! and testament, in order as justly as
 may be to distribute my interests in
 the world among succeeding men.
 That part of my interest which is
 known in law and recognized by my
 creditors as personal property being inconsiderate and of no account, I
 make no disposal of in my will. My
 right to live, being but life estate
 is not at my disposal, but this except
 ed, all else in the world l now proceed
 to devise and bequeath:
 1. I give to good fathers and moth
 CTS in trust for their children all lit
 tie words of praise and encouragement
 and all quaint, pet names and endear-
 ments and 1 charge said parents to use them justly and generously as the needs of their children may require.
 ?. l leave to children inclusively,
 but only for the term of their child hood, all and every, the flowers of the field and the blossoms of the woods with the right to play among them freel y according to the custom of chil- dren, warning them, at the same time, against thistles and thorns; and I de- wise to children the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof and the odorS of willows that did grow therein and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees, and I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways and the night and the moon and the train of the milky way to wonder at, but subject, never theless, to the rights hereafter given to lovers.
 8. l devise to boys, jointly, all the useful fields and commons where ball may be played; all pleasant waters where they may swim; all snow-clad hills where they may coast and all streams and ponds where they may fish, or where, when grim winter comes they may skate, to have and to hold for the period of their boyhood; and all meadows with clover bos- soms and butterflies and woods with all their apputenances, the squirrels | and the birds, the echoes and strange noises and all distant things which | may be visited, together with the ad- ventures there found, and I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with the pictures that may be seen in the burning wood of the fire, to enjoy without hind and UrithOIlt hra al and care.
 4. I devise to lovers their imagin- ary world with whatever they may need, as the stars and the skies, the roses by the wall, the blossoms of the hawthorne, and the sweet strains of music and aught else by which they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
 5. To young men, jointly, 1 devise and bequeath all boisterous and inspir- ing sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and un- 1aunted confidence of their own strength; though they are rude, I give them power of making lasting friend ships and of possessing associates of the highest quality. I give to all mer- ry songs and brave choruses to sing with husky voices.
 6. l devise and bequeath to all of hose who are no longer children ort youths or lovers, memories of the diff Perent periods of their lives, and I be- lueath to the them volumes of the poems of Burns, Shakespeare and oth- ,r poets, if there be others, to the end hat they live all the old days again freely and fully without tithe or dim mutton, and lastly, but not leastly, to 'ur loved ones with snowy crowns, l oequeath the happiness of old age, the owe and gratitude of their childrenl md friends until they fall asleep.