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Show THE MARTYR. (By Walt Mason.) "My wife and Beven daughters," sa d G. Augustus Grimes, "beside the briny waters are having gorgeous times. This climate is a hummer for heat and. dust and flies, and so they'll spend the summer beneath more kindly skies." I said, "But whv in Cadiz are you thus left behind? Whv dont you join the ladies and drop this beastly grind?" "That girls may have their pleasure, some man must find the dimes, and so I hump for treasure," said G. Augustus Grimes. I like to sweat and swelter, to give the girls a treat, and so I leave my shelter, and tread the burning tsreet, to earn an extra shilling, that they may have their fun; of cmrse I'm more than willing to keep them staked with mon. My daughters all are peaches, my wife's a lollipop, and on the ocean beaches long may they bask and flop." Oh, cheerful, manly and toil like gravel carters that girls martyrs, who drag their spavined feet, may have a treat! Copyright, J 910. on . |