Uncle Sam

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 February 1917, Page 1

Uncle Sam

(By Walt Mason).

A patient jamb is Uncle Sam, as mild and gentle as a clam. 'He takes 110 stock in useless scraps, in swapping swats with 'brawling chaps, in pulling hair and blacking eyes just for tlio sake of exorcise. But there will bo a round-up vast, when Uncle Sam gets ailed at last. Because he's patient and serene, and has a meek and trailqui! mien, the wranglers siometimes think it safe his grave and reverend corns to chafe. They steal his dog and shoot his cat, and throw large dornicks at his hat; their foolishment still further goes, until at last they tweak his nose. Then Uncle iSam tatos off his coat and rolls his shirtsleeves to his throat, spits on his hands and cracks his heels, and hollers till the welkin reels. And straightway in a brace of shakes he'll whip his weight in cats or snakes, as. he has whipped them in the past, when Uncle Sam gets riled at last. YOll cannot always kick his shins and think he'll wear forgiving grins; his ribs you cannot always poke and think he'll take it as a joke. To outer darkness you'll be cast ; when Uncle Sam gets iriled at last.