Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-13 | Page 12 | Rippling Rhymes

I Rippling' By WALT MASON. H THE CROOK In our (lulct country village lived the prince of get-rich sharks; and his dreams were all o pillage, and of skinning skin-ning easy marks. Oh, his front was! fine and stately, and he was a gorgeous j gent, and befooled the' suckers greatly, j with his promised ten per cent. Bui one morning he was missing, with his winnng smiles and glad, and his name's become a hissing iu our melancholy rad. Oh, we do not see him trundle in his costly auto now; and he took away a bundle that would choke a! muley cow. There are greats and there is wailing from the suckers old and young, talk of lynching and of jailing from the come-ons who were stung.i Gono the crook who did the dishing, and they know not where ho went; he is doubtless busy fishing, elsewhere, with his ten per cent. Oh, I am a doubting Thomas, and I smell the scent pt cheese, when the get-rich fakers promise more than safety guarantees. guar-antees. And the wise and cautious banker knoivs how much is safe and Hanc. and that's all for which I'll hanker while I have a working brain. Better have an income modest, and be sure It's always there, than to paw the sand and sawdust and to weep and tear my hair. oo