A FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A
DONKEY'S EARS AND SOME BOOKS
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain
In Dalton that would some day make his fortune.
There'd been some Boston people out to see it:
And experts said that deep down in the mountain
The mica sheets were big as plate glass windows.
He'd like to take me there and show it to me.
"I'll tell you what you show me. You remember
You said you knew the place where once, on Kinsman,
The early Mormons made a*settlement
And built a stone baptismal font outdoors —
But Smith, or some one, called them off the mountain
To go West to a worse fight with the desert.
You said you'd seen the stone baptismal font.
Well, take me there."
"Some day I will."
"Today."
"Huh, that old bath-tub, what is that to see?
Let's talk about it."
"Let's go see the place."
"To shut you up I'll tell you what I'll do:
I'll find that fountain if it takes all summer,
And both of our united strengths, to do it."
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