r. - GHOST TOV.N GAZETTE. CHI'H NA# ALASKA,
> ■: *' . / October* 1009. .
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..C *tc; A fov; dry3 ago tho Old Cynic took a walk along tho crook
thru town in tho hope that tho beautiful Fall wor.thor would
» in3piro him to dream up c. fov; more brilliant romr.rk3 for tMs paper/
in addition to tho ono3 ho already had. Ho saw squirrels running fround
in tha tree3 storing sprue6 cones and dry mushrooms for winter. Tho
beavor .wore busy building a dam to form .a small lake in which they
wore .putting groan poplar and willow 3tick3 for winter food. Further
fcajuown crook the .Old Cynic coma on a. couple of hi3 ol dost jig igh^pra rrkfnr
rT ntitr qrftr^TI~rn iiyT n_; tho'warm 3uhshIho’/'this i3 what ono
iw -thoti v/as saying to tho other: •
•’ . , Hpv; do I know that my youth is all 3pont ?
g$£ f r^Woll, my got up and go has got up and wont.
Spf in spite ofr it all I'm able to grin
on I .thinlyof where my get up has boon.'
Old ago is golden, so 1’ vo hoard It said
. But sometimes I wonder a3 X gut,.in my bod < '
With my oars Ifi^a drawer, ny tooth 'In a cud>
/,Jj$y c7os on the table until I wake up.
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fijKX sleep dims my eyes I say to my solf
thoru anything else I should have laid on the shelf*?
> , %fm happy to say as I clo3e my door,
fMy friends are the same, perhaps oven more,
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;v iftiun I was young my slippers wero rod ,
I could kick uo my heels right over nv head*
D\it I grev/ older and my slippers wore blue,
: but still I could dance the whole night hr thru*
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Npw ITm old, my slippers arc black,. _ _;
wrj_|, to the store and puff my way back*
The reason I know my youth i3 all spent
hy got up and go has got up and Went* ,
•But I re,ally don't mind when I think with a grin,
Of ail the grand places my get up has boon*
-Since I've retired from life's competition,
I busy myself with complete repetition.
I get up each morning, dust off my witts.
Pick up the. paper and road the "Cubits"*
>If my name is missing I Icnov: I'm not dead ,
So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bod*
"Grow old _along with mo, the bast I3 yet to bo, the last of
life for which tte first was ma.de,-"
. This wonderful now Stntc'of Alnskn'Ts "gotting off to lust
tho kind of n stnrt thrt thinking people expected' thr.t it would.
First the legislators net in the first .session Ir.st Spring end
relded the treasury.They took r.ll the* money they could get hold of
to pny their nstrononicr.l wegos end nr.lrrioa.
The seIrion sensed th.nt “ sore:thing w.ns rotten nnd they shied
nwr.y from Alnskr. in such nunbers thr.t v/u .ere hnving the smallest
pnek on record.
Tho oil thnt the Ala 3 tec. Pres3 w.ns pumping out of tho wells
in such enormous quantities turned out to be gns of n kind thr.t
does net burn, just blows.
The whole- r.tno3phoru in the Stnte turned sour end wo hr.vc
hr.d :i hell of n cold, v/U summer. You know, just like Into Fell.
Anu then the c.-.rpentors fell in line with the current notion
th'.t Ain sienna nre Godf s chosen, people nnd enn get nwey with
'■nything. The carpenters wont on strike the Inst of Juncfor
eleven Weeks. Thnt did it* J3ut. Uncle will come to our rescue
when We begin to whine nnd will fill our wolf nr c funds end our
unemployment fur.es nnd we Aln.sk*.n3 enn luxuriate ns usunl.