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Show Rippling' Rhymes By W.VLT MASON ii VRD TO KlLIi. You take a club and swat u snake-and snake-and it will vain contortions maki . long after n a dead; the tall will tie ltnelf in khotq as in defiance of the SratS that smashed the evil head Bui w-hen the Bunset comes, men say. the serpent ults Its foolish play, and drops lis bluff Insane; ,,ih one hangs it on a fence In the belief, devoid of .sense, thm such an act brings rain And it 1:, much the sam with booze; his sinful head we saw him lose and gloried In his bill; but still his body squirms and Iwim . what time the nation wots and wlsts that 'dead things shouldn't crawl. Still i , sinners brow their J.igs of alo and we escort them to Jail and f;ivo them fifty years; and every time I walk the street some delegate I'm sure lo i mee t whose breath suggests zwel beers. Bootlogge'rs In Ihe alleys thrive and I 'ct the serpe nt's not alive; our statutes I to eonfounel. like any broken pnake Is bQOCe . the reflex action of his thews Just maks him flop around. (Copyright by Ueorge Matthew Adams. I |