University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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be wbvfvf' GUESS llll be a lawyer, 'cause my uncle Dan, QQ ,-an He is quite a feller and he's a lawyer man, Li 57? x '1T-'sdjxif He has a pair o? hosses and when he's drivin' out SR 373 lf, Heps jest as near a king as I shall care about. VF if IHS ffhow dye do, Danlnlfhowls yer health terdayv? -,lin the people take their hats off something thataway- f'Wus daown to the court house and heerd you specyfyin7 In the murder case from Ridgeway when yo' cleared ole jimmy Ryan. V i Was kinder glad yo' cleared him but they wus nuthin, else Fera jury to do with him,-that is if they felt's V I did. Kind o' thought Ryan sort of ,knew Sutliin' 'beout the murder-thet is until yo? Made yer plea for him, then 'tware jest as plain Thet he hada alerbi as it is itas goin' ter rainw. Then when we're there, to the farm my uncle owns You jest had ought to see him when he7s a-throwini stones. Why, he kin stand in the dooryard with a apple on a stick, Swish it and youlll see thesplash ,clear over in the crick--- He'll take a pebble sailer, en pull her up en back ' And shy over the big red barn the very first crack. I And then we look at the cattle ,en he tells-the hired -man What he thinks he'll do with stock, 'en some hillutin, plan He's read in a farmin' paper fbout how he thinks he'll graft A grape vine on a current bush, 'en kill the wobbly calf. 'En then when we're comin' home, jest as like as not, Weill see some farmer feller a-standin, in a lot, , 'En he'll yell acrost to him, 'CI say, there, how dye do, Canit YO, pull up here a bit, got suthin' to say to you 'il Then when he Comes up nearer, 'fwe've been thinkin' on it, Squire W

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THOMAS A. BOGLE

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Of axin' yo' il' yo' didn't think yo' c'nd step a little higher- ll been talkin' down to town to sonic as think 'en kalkel-late That fer congress this fall yo're the logicul candidate . -- O pshaw niy uncle says, don't think it's in my line, I'n1 kind o' sort o' plain 'en ain't inutch on the shine. G-ness yer better let nie stay here jest abeout's I am, I w'ant picked out fer Washington, en besides yer Uncle Sam Has got a heap o' better ones than me to represent - But 'f Dan'nl, so wuz Lincoln plain, 'en he was president. Thet's what we want, we want a man a-representin' there Who ain't in fer nl 'busterin', 'en will do things on the square 'En then my uncle whistles but jest before he ends ' The talk he says to him et he's in the hands o' friends. Then he says, H yer pa tells me thet you've got it in yer hat Thet yo' will be a lawyer-now, what's the truth o' that ? Thought I would, I answered up. Well, now, my little man, Do you know you'll hev to work hard if you adopt that sort o' plan. There'll be days 'en days when the spiders' occupy yer door Doin' nuthin' else but spinnin' webs, en then yer ofhs' floor Will be worn out thin and clean by yer walkin' up and down, A waitin' fer yer clients thet never get aroun'. 'En then, besides, you've got to have a lot of push 'en pluck, This yer lawin' business aint by no means circumstance 'en luck, You've got ter hev some brains, my boy, 'en do a lot o' work, If yo' win, you've got to drive--it'll neyerdo to shirk. Then I say, C' my father says thet you was a lazy kid, That whenever they was hayin' a sidlin' Offygu slid, 'En they'd find yo' in the shed a talkin' to the pigs About the mean rapscalusness of the low-lived thievin' Whigs, Or Emmet's ff Vindication , to the brindle cow and calf, En thet the littlest of them two would look at you 'en laff. ' I-Ie did ? says he, thet may be so, but I'd hev' you know, r my man, You'll hev' to recite a long, long while before ryou're uncle Dan . I guess thet's so, but I will try to learn to spout 'en say Pieces 'bout the stars 'en stripes 'en grand Ameriky, So I kin hev' a span of colts, a farm and hired man, 'En be talked of fer congressmen jest like my uncle Dan. GEORGE IQUSSELL BARKER. 16 I 1 l I 1 i n ? l i a l i t 1 . j 1 l l Z, ill l , l I i f 5 4 l l