The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08


Silent and endless the Kirghz steppe
Brkendown locomotives litter the road bed The engine
works its steel elbows up and down. pants with
its hoarse 1t pants exhang dense white cloud Of stea
stack. The wheels rattle the car trembes
The Kghiz refuses let them go forward silent and
i + e id n ike slender snake It bears down
bridges rockng wheels norts exuaon works dill
gently with its steel elbows Now leaps to hill like frightened
of old
lay happily the wide Kghiz the
head high The train head
sid then plunged his black lips into
thorny weeds by the waysde again.
village in sight
Only bald steppe perched tha
the sky Iopatno and the in Lops
"A soft little n through the open
muks stretched their wrapped contened
Boards pointed peacefully upward pals and kettles clattered rhyhmi
Tnother pulled shirt squashed
fortunate the lid of his wooden chest and laukhed
"A good louse-pity to kill it."
"What you kill it for them"
For travelling without pass He creps under my shirt and
stations, then bite him, and he bites
the sly little DEVIL"
The whole roars. rocks with laughter
Only Yropka the little muk sadly at his watch He had
spent long time at the onbug market looking for some mpeon
his broken watch But he had not been able to find
His comrades laughed at him:
"The fools have all died, uncle, you're the last one
sad business for Yeropka,.the little mujik
Beneath lid the hands stand motionless
s @ e T n ff s ] esn
fifty of wheat Absolutely damn fohe would
py sucked Yeropkas
like twelve ech His head confused though he had
The mujiks leased him:
"what Yeropka till ticking?"
"Hes twisted head off by mistake"
you'll get some one to buy it all right thing like that neve.
loses its value Only mustn't show when sell
roared the amused themselves with Yeropkas
misfortune
semyon with the red picked four skirts at
orenburg his purchase
reckone the profit would make them But when they had
The Kirghz and the sart did
skirts at all, but went around in trousers like men!
Semyn with crushed the cursed skirts together
avag He let his head fall his SACK and lay there down.
the Bolshevk their they
sD let s had p s h a ms
Ivan trying bought
pools grain
Baraa the soes with his nail and announced loudly
You wear them two yet by God! So like iron
couldn't cut them with knife
Kirghz trousers then didn't matter
s gandmohers skirt Anyway he wouldn't have got much for it
it was an old one He felt his knife smiled to himself:
SHARP as 9 razor! Cut any s site .-.
with him. snued through his mumbed ingratangy Pretty
good if the boys uncle really Commissar All sorts of people
ones hold their with the best Better stick to hm
He might nigh, be very useful some time ~,
Mshka and Prokhors friendly nyelopng Mishka
He wallet handed
a small
it, Michae"
"Why don't it YOURSELF"
go ahead don't be ashamed When have your
One must act according to the word Of God
Mishka ary blowing dusty
"My uncle is going half pood Of dried aprcos"
"You!"
"My mother"
"Aprcots-thats fine stubut they must dear?"
Certainly! that uncle? He's rich!"
Mishka spoke like muik,
self:
what fools they They believe every word
CTo be Contnued)
The Japanese Say 1t With Flowers