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Show My Playground"Yes," said the Philosopher of "The Playground."(Pardon me, I shall try to avoid a sentence.)"Yes, I shall live in a garden,A garden near a playgroundSuch as I described in "The Pen".There "will be a pergola in my garden,And I shall sit there and watch the playgrormds.The old hens cackling-¦*The chickens smurking nervously-Lobsters hideously picking- their teethAnd without-due regard for my sensitiveness,It might disturb the youths in the playground. In the mysterious limbs of partial intoxication, To see us fully lit-up. And we shall not sleep too much in my garden.(Really the dancers in the playground are quite distracting.)And what's the use of my Pergola. And look at the castles in the sky Illuminated by the amber wine of sunset And we shall not wish to scale them Being rather unsteady, and too corpulent. (Imagine Herb corpulent!)There will be a, shelf in my pergola,"With room for a few books.There will not be room for "Your Sister's Keeper"But there will be room for "Lights and Shadowsof Chicago,"And for "A thousand and one ways to Advertize" For "Verse Libre" and the "Chrony," And we shall not eat too much in my garden- We shall go inside where we can fill up unseen."Such," said the Philosopher, "Will be my garden."Where all things move to the rythm of gurgling verse libre,"Where cheroots and playgrounds furnish recreation, Where the spirits of all ages meet together, Statesmen, warriors, poets, musicians-(And the profits-mine Gott, Herb-, don't forget the profits.)A Bit of F]llerLab. "Work: If 'twere done when 'tis done, then 'twere "well twere done quickly.An optimist is a stude who isn't caught and is cheating to keep up his grades, and a pessimist is one who has been caught and who thinks it is only a question of time till his neighbors are found out, too1.It is easy to repent after you have been expelled.'Tis as easy to quench fire with gasoline, as t>, change the mind of a U. of U. dean.If you are in activities for applause-buy a page in the Chrony and advertize-it's cheaper and quicker.You may argue all day, but you can't argue an "E" away.If you don't know when to begin work, you'll soon be told when to stop.A girl may be weak, but she usually manages to break her dad.Run under Protest of the EditorSome sororities judge a girl not by what's ir her, but by what's on her.Page two hundred seventy-one |