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Show "WHERE YOU FIND SMOKE-" H ByT, Q, B L went fussing around '$ B The political headquarters '' m Of the fellers who have an idea B They are going to be mayors or commissions B Or white wings B Or something; B And now I've got tobacco heart, or K ( Maybe I shouldn't say that, for election B Cigars are not tobacco or anything like B An -inspector from the fire department B Sho"ufif Ibe delegated Wm To stick around the rooms of every candidate B Cos they ain't got no right B To burn rubbish in them rooms; H There's an ordinance against burning rubber, B old shoes B Dried leaves, dead animals and bad records B In the streets, and there B Should be one for indoor sport B- Of the same kind, B For it's nothing more when a man lights an B election B Cigar than usurping B The prerogative of the famed sachet kitty. fl Why they give election cigars B Or prizes or premiums or anything you can B Light I don't know, B But they all insist and what B; Is a feller going to do about it B Farley Jenson said B "Have a cigar," generous like, like that, B And I modestly demurred, .but took one B Saying I'd smoke it after dinner. B "Take another and smoke it now," said Parley Bj Parley don't buy them you know, just orders B them. B Well, all those other managers who are figur-B figur-B ing B On their candidates being mayors or cornel corn-el missioners B Or canine catchers B Or something, are just as open hearted B But none of them furnishes a match, B But as I was saying, why they hand them B Out I don't see. B They have all put me in a helluvaflx, B Cos I smoked a cigar from each candidate B And each tasted like a kodak film B Or some asafetida B Or a cluster of jimpson weeds B Or a nice 'birdcage B Or "A Little Grey Home in the West" B Or something. B And now I can't vote for any of B Them cos not only am I H i Incapacitated B But if I weren't, I wouldn't. i B If anybody asks me who I'm B Going to vote for B They'll have to "search me" B Just like a plain clothes man B From headquarters said the other day B When one of Karl Scheld's cohorts B (Karl is to be elected Iby the way) HH Said to a fly-copper B "Who are you for?" B "I'm for Mont Ferry for mayor B "And for Karl Scheid for commissioner and " B "Fine!" exclaimed the lieutenant B "Hero are some B "Of Scheld's cards to put in your pocket." B "Murder! don't do that," said the fly-Dick, B "They search me every night at police head-B head-B (ivufr.terB. B "And .Slippery 'Dick would never stand for B ithem B "Give me a cigar.' . , |