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Show I Walt Mason 4 BKn KK DA 1 S T'or long, long months wove lived to spend, but now our orgy bees Its end, and better days begin; tho man who has a bunch of bones now asks himself, in tnLur 'ones, "Why should I blow them in? Why feed my money to the pOWS when onder savings bank allow a seeml interest rote? Too long, toe long i'e thrown at the shining plunks I drew xa pay. and hit a gaudy gait." And now the merchant princes rise, and say to clerks and kindred kin-dred guys-, "Our prices must com Uown. so let's reduce some picayunes on every pair of puntalonns, and ev-ory ev-ory velvet gown. " And all the humrv profiteers are doubtlo. filled with eor-dld eor-dld fears, as they size up their rolls doomed Is the graft they loug ha e held, the easy marks have all rebelled and they must hunt their holef. An end to profiteering crimes would come. I've said In countless rhyme?. and many a deathless screed, when people snne again once more, refused :o pur-chaa pur-chaa at the More the junk thco did not need And no v.- that happy day has come, or all anjti r. " ,ind all the omens punk: and father, when he draws hi wage. on't seek the marts, in noble rage, to blow- hir bottom plunk. |