Country Store (verse)
Hartsock, Ernest
Country Store In this emporium of soap and cheese, Percale, molasses, snuff, and ipecac, The grizzled sages, mouthing mysteries, Expertly spit tobacco at a crack. One on a sugar-barrel picks his...
...Ernest Hartsock...
...He hides a rat-trap in each bin of crackers...
...Wise is the host to this senate of slackers...
...The room, fuming with sweat and turf, grows warmer...
...One on a sugar-barrel picks his nose With unction as he solves religion's riddles...
...Two greybeard veterans' shrill tremolos Fight out the war again like squabbling fiddles...
...a fox-red farmer Sips paregoric and lambastes a fly...
...The village nitwit lolls gap-toothedly by ; The pot-faced sheriff snores...
Vol. 11 • March 1930 • No. 18
