FORSS? CLSEK. 



ho coul ' relate the iinds of r;ork 



* fall to tl-.e lot of the' Force t ClorkT 

 r.ecorl t' e t'.:ir:3 ti-at she 1 icust do 



'.:e count -3 her day'o ~orle through? 



She opens the letters anti reads the mail 



31 a Grazer's coaplalnt to a timber Bale: 

 I'he ta'-.ea dictation eo a natter of courso 

 fron the Janitor up to the head of the force: 

 She beam tho brunt of the office ire 

 and 'jeara a orile C.Q s?:e pol:eo the fire: 

 She lister.a ir. K-rpathy './her things go ?rong 

 Till frowns disappear and hearts gro / strong: 



I not the leaot of her nan 7 trials 

 Is keeping in ninci all things in the files, 

 which filea she arranges day after day 

 For thosa vi-o ts. o out but von't r u ^ a* 'ay. 

 Ac c our* t s anl ui-jbvrsenssnto irxxat be ':ept '.veil in hand 

 As for errors In that line no D ? . vill atani, 



. so the poor Clerk rui>t worry her bralna 

 An-?, get little than ''a for her efforts and r 

 She ma'.'.es out reports and orderc oupplioe 

 For tI M e foroo in the office and Hanger likewise: 

 She 3traightens out claima and helps on th*= nape, 

 F^econnais8ance, grazing, or boundaries, perhaps. 

 She cj- t s!7ors the telephone forty times daily, 

 ..'eicones all visitors and tal'-s to then gailr, 



though on her desk the worl: stands inee deep 

 ell nuot be finished before she can sleep. 

 The first of the year she turns her attention 

 to Accountability - too awful to mention! 

 Then follow the things which before I have quoted 

 Though dozens of things I have'nt yet noted. 

 Such as corrals anl fences and bridges and trails, 

 Telephone linen and groat timber oales: 

 Fire prevention for tree preservation 

 To help Uncle Sara promote Conservation. 



She tends all these duties in a businesslike 

 So vrhen all's said and done no critic can say 

 she does'nt deserve, from tho hands of the ration, 

 The small sum she gets as due compensation. 



Hlta A. Castle, 



formerly Clerk. 



