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Show - e Be Rippling 1 Rhymes f I By WALT MASON. I HIGH PRICES l The prices ..(till are higher than anj i thriiu Ijus. i ran no-, ' vithnu' a fl?h. II A and when I make a pjment for gro I JVi or raiment. I think 1 d like to ; F-4 .die.' To earn my meager dollars 1 wilt . down ii-an, collars and toil like old JR. -. in Hill; what wonder I'm disgusted mtj, if week-ends find me busted when I Bui e paid mv bill? They say ought to pickle me dime and groat f J 'and nkkei, against the rainy day; bUtB ml I mben we've p ud rne bak r, and sQiiar-ed sQiiar-ed ihe undertaker, there's naught to j i l Mud around doggonlnp; ll ray . .. . ins hank Is yawning, there ar M I no nickels there; in spite of all en j deavor it seras that I will never haH fifty cent.s to spare. When I DaT?H paid the grocer '.he wolf seems tha I much closer to my cheap cottage door; j when I have paid the hatter I feel it , wouldn't matter if I should breathiB no more. When I have paid the ?he' 1 j niau I ay. No being human could stand tho stress and strain;" when I I have paid the plumber, his bill, which : i- B hummer, gives me an oblong Pa'"-nd Pa'"-nd ei we k. i'p on striving. sUl1 V hustling;, Btill surviving, and hope m see the day when one may heed tn Dogj 1, and take some trom his wagc j to put in brine aw a . . Vt |