Old Henry Smith

Since we have told you about the English teaching, training, and supervising we have been doing, we do not want you to get the wrong idea. Grandpa says his English is about the same as it always has been and to prove it he's sending a poem he put together the other day.

Old Henry Smith was a thinkin' one day,

Oh, that I could run like that horse of mine o'r yonder

Or, wouldn't it be grand to fly like Mr. Crow up overhead.

And then he heard his yellow Lab a thinkin',

Oh, that I could talk like Old Man Henry does

Or, wouldn't it be nice to cook like Mrs. Smith.

Then Henry straightened up and thought again,

Maybe it is quite remarkable that I can

think, and speak, and do all the things I do.

It might be best to leave the runnin' to my horse

And the flyin' to Mr. Crow, and be content to

do the thinkin, and the speakin' and the doin'

And then another thought came into

Old Henry Smith's soul, Man is different,

He truly is a child of God ya' know.

I think it's culte and so true. We love each one of you and pray you'll be guided and protected in all you do.