TENTH AXXL'AL YKAH BOOK- PART V 169 



"The printer loafs in easy chair; 

 He shirks from work; he shirks from care, 

 And makes his daughter mend his hoBo 

 And wife to patch his darned old clothes. 

 And son to feed the pigs and fowls. 

 While he sits round and growls and howls. 



"He drives the (luill and slings the ink, 

 And gives to each a sage-like wink, 

 And makes you think he has a think, 

 And for each think he wants a drink. 



"By ways so grand and thoughts so wise. 

 You'd judge he'd dropped from out the skies, 



And brought with him from Angols' wings. 

 The quills which pen such wondrous things. 



"He bears for each a ponderous load; 

 He's like the guide board by the road. 

 Which points to all the proper way. 

 While he himself doth go astray. 



"He wisely says that wo should keep 

 Our gardens stocked with rooting sheep, 

 And save the best of wother lambs. 

 From which to raise hydraulic rams. 



"He tells us how to grow great crops, 

 By planting kangaroos for hops. 

 And seed to sow for growing silk — 

 The cows which give the butteT.ilk. 



"To us poor fools he wisely tells, 

 Pumpkins are pumped from deepest wells; 

 He tells us things that we don't know; 

 Why roosters roost and crows don't crow. 



"He tells us not to trust to luck 

 When growing apes for garden truck, 

 And that the wise forever seeks 

 The oldest roofs for growing leaks. 



"Though he has faults when driving quill, 

 But with his faults we love him still; 

 He is our brother and our friend 

 And ever loyal to the end. 



'He drives dull thoughts and cares away 

 And teaches us the proper way 

 To help mankind in every strife. 

 And live aright a proper life. 



