The Jester

He sent his son to collego to store bis head wiíi küowledge. "I need a smart youns feilow iii my business house." he salí!; "And wlicu he's otluc:it( d, why, boin's so relat ed. Ke's just the one to take the reins and drive up to tbe head. "They say he quite surpasses all tbe CeJlows in his classes, And I reckon he'li think nothin of my ralher taxin load, I'm gettin oíd and vroary, bnt it makes the fui ira clieery Totiink of leanin ou my aon adown life's Western road." Well, be trod a path of flovy, did this student of my story. And thej' dined hini and they wined him on his final college day. But he broko each rule of grauiiiiar when lie spoke as with a liammer, And his knees they knocked together if you mentioned algebra. But he shone forth as a sprinter, and he trained the liveloiiü: viilter For tile spring and suinroer races, whore his record was most flne. And the oíd man ooks i'eflective and thinks college rules detective, While bis son goes round the country with a jolly baseball nine.