| Show THE OLD CLERK r As he bends oer the ledger that shining old head which reflects every mood of the shy while he stealthily blackens the figures in red the mastake ol 01 an age bedimmed eye ott I 1 wonder how time will effect his release y what hell do when we vote ham too slow tureen the days that his use and his heart beatings cease where will the old clerk got one can learn of the temperate days that are gone from the rule and quill pen and be answers td toby at 71 As he answered to toby at 10 from its first infant struggles to credit and wealth nase has watched the great enterprise grow but ilia t hand trembles now he Is broken in h balth yet where can the old clerk got K each pound ot success had but left him a grainy what a pt rest he might own but a lonely old heart and a weary old brain arc his meed tor the years that have flown every blossom he lo 10 ed in the heyday ot allta has and lies neath the snow and een barred from this bustle and r A then where should tha old clerk go f |
