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Show II Do n't Stop my Paper. . Don't stop my paper, printer, Don ' t stri t c try n ;i me oil' yet ; I've many things to purchase, Dollars arc hard to get; . . 4 1 But tug- a little harder ' : Is. wbat I mean to do, , - , . , ;And scrape' the dimes together, ; , Enough for mc and you. , ' :I can't afford to drop it,. j , I Unci it dosen't pay Oir .i f 'To do without a paper ' ' ' ' However others may. " . "t . I hac'to ask my nejjjhb.ors ' , ' To give me theirs on loan : They don't just say, but mean tf, Why don't you have your own? .J :Y6n can't tell how wemiss it, . : ; ; If it, by. any fate, . .. i . " Shquld happen not to reaches, :w ; . fV Or come a little late ; - .''-fiC ;.''Then all is in a hubbub, . - - ;;. And things go nil awry, , 1. And, printer, if you're married, XwS MWl You know the reason why. - : ' 5No'I:J ' ;' V:;!-S j ; : TTlte children want their stories; -.-, :, -,., J . And wife is anxious, too, ". - ; I . A't'first to glance it over, ' ' v , ' . And then to read it through ; ; ' ' . j . .And I to rend the leaders , .j; ; ij And con the book reviews, !j . ; ' J6- -And scan the correspondence, ' ..; j ' . And every scrap of news. , I cannot do without it, ' ilL. i t J . ' r it ' Itisnousetotryj The otiier people takeit, ii if 5 And, printer, so must I. 1" ." I, too, must keep mo posted, . ijjj ; .v J - And know what's going on, ' Or feel and be accounted I" . ,Jtit "" Afogy simpleton. . '' Then take it kindly, printer, ' & ' ' , t ' If pay be somewhat slow, ' . , For cash is not so plenty, , . , And wants not few, youRhoy ; , I But I must have mypapcr, - I .'oh' l. 5 lV' t.' V; - c- ' r Cost what it may to mc ; I'd rather dock my sugar, : And do without my tea. So, printer", don't you stop 'it, 1 ; Unless you want my fr.ovvn,. For. here's the year's subscription, v . And credit it right down ; And send the paper promptly, ' ' ' And regularly on ; And let it bring us monthly V "s; ' Its welcome benison. i 1 ! |