---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 10
published: 1901-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Doing One’s Best: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 10 (August 1901): 768.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0410unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0410unse
start_page: 768
end_page: 768
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0410unse
  publication_year: 1901
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Doing One’s Best: A Poem

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DOING ONE'S BEST.



               If I were a cobbler, it would be   my pride
                  The best of all cobblers to be;
               If I were a tinker, no tinker beside

                 Should mend an old kettle like me.
                                                             — Old Song.