--- 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: 14 number: 6 published: 1911-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Man Who Follows the Plow," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 6 (April 1911): 505–506.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1406unse 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: improvementera1406unse start_page: 505 end_page: 506 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1406unse publication_year: 1911 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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Man Who Follows the Plow THE BOOK OF MORMON IN HIEROGLYPHICS. 505 man who apparently had few opportunities for studying a foreign system of hieroglyphical writing, could, nevertheless, write fluently by such a method from the very beginning of his work. (to be continued.) Snowjlakb, Ariz. The Man Who Follows the Plow. I'm not so much at singin' as you high, kaflutin' chaps, My voice it may be husky, and a little rough, perhaps; But I have been a plowin' with a lazy team, you see, And it keeps me pretty busy with my "Get-up, whoa-haw, gee!'' But, if you'll pay attention, I have a word to say, About the great mistakes you make, and do it every day, In dealing out your praises, and I want to tell you now, Too often you forget the man who walks behind the plow. refrain: You may talk about your learned men, with their wit and wisdom rare, Your painters and your poets, they get praises everywhere; It's well enough to make a show, but will you tell me how This world could ever do without the man who follows the plow? 'Tis well enough to go to school, to learn to read and write: It's easier still to dress up fine, and sport around all night. Your music, paintin' and poetry may all be hard to beat, But tell me, what you're going to do for something good to eat? You say my boots are muddy, and my clothing it is coarse; That I'd make a good companion for the oxen or the horse. My face is red, my hands are hard, of course, I will allow, But do not be so quick to spurn the man who follows the plow. I like your great inventions, I'm glad you're getting smart; I like to hear your music, for it kinder stirs my heart; But it will never stir the stomach of any hungry man; So let me call your attention to the sort of a thing that can. Now, boys, don't be so anxious to leave the good old farm; Your father's strength is failing, soon he'll need your youthful arm. If you're honest in your purpose, at your feet the world will bow, For the greatest ©f the great men, Abraham Lincoln, was a man who steered the plow.— Selected by Harold C. Kimball. CO I 0) 05 bJO O ,_, ® - ° .2 o o a> q -o h-1 Jfi .2 C3 ° jC o> o> w o 5 PQ K Q 55 IS PS Ph S 2 8 S.s § 03 — 03 — i ^^ 5 m o,h3-g .2 2 CD <— ^ £ -[ > p ^S •—i -i-3 s»S"S m +=> c& .S 0) C-, 3 &,*■ oo co „ co 13 tiQ .5 on «§ "g J* CO ^ - ^ 3 OS 5? o -£ 3i2 CO ° ® i - p.Pn a) • +3 rC ■s -a >-« O) _Q += c3 • •a T3 O go S p § M JJ« co 'g 5 « "S£g 05 l— 1 03 0) S 02 r/; O P.+3 fe