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Show Rippling' Rhymes by W Al. f MMiU.M. v i r THE MODERN Y . I do as little as I can. and ask the highest pay, that's why I am an also run, now that I'm bent and gray I fooled along, year after year, at every Job I'd touch I always ii.id ;i deadly fear that I would do too much. I've heard of men who strle to give full value for their wage; such people are too good to live, and never reacn old age Such people live In siorj books, and tracts and sacred tales, and many years have passed, gadSOOkS since I have seen such males. LlKe either Independent wights who swell the tolling throngs. I vc always scood up for my rights, and whooped about my wrongs. I've pawed around in noble rage and shed all kinds of brine, the rights of those who paid my wag was no concern of mine And now thai I am gray and bent I cannot find a place; employers will not pay a cent they do not liko my face. They m orn me when, in woe arrayed, with woi I I'd get in touch, they've heard I always al-ways was afraid that 1 would do Ioj much |