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Show V Jl WILBUR D NEffilT New luxury m mm I lbs bacon at 2Sc 56 S lbs porterhouse at 2Sc S Meatman's Sales Check. Bacon! Thy name was once as low As was thy price; We would not, In the long ago. Think of thee twice. Thou wert not meet to grace the board Where pomp and pride meet-In meet-In the dark smokehouse wert thou stored As common sldemeat. Ah. then the lordly porterhouse Was chief of all The peer of quail, or duck or grouse In royal hall. Thou wert with contumely cooked Like other griddlings. Or in the musty cellar hooked As humble middlings. Then porterhouse was for the great, A food apart. And thou for folk of mean estate Though honest heart. Thou mightst lie on a fowl to bake- Or greens mightst season, But couldst not rank with any steak j In rhyme or reason. Thou furnfshest a handy rind For greasing boots; Who's say for place thou wert designed Would merit hoots. But now by fortune's changing whim New rank thou'st taken We struggle new with courage grim To save our bacon. Bacon! Thou showest how to climb And gain In worth. That all thou needst is patient time Though low thy birth. Today the waiter brings thee in With proper splendor Who orders thee has got the tin And la a spender! |