And we cheerily put to sea;
And we left the crew of the junk to chew
The bark of the rubagub tree.
Robert Jones Burdette, known as the Burlington Hawkeye Man, was one of the prototypes of our present day newspaper columnists.
His witty verse and prose has lived, and he ranks with the humorists of our land.
WHAT WILL WE DO?
What will we do when the good days come—
When the prima donna’s lips are dumb.
And the man who reads us his “little things”
Has lost his voice like the girl who sings;