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Show ' 1 Rippling' Riiymes 6y WAl r MAbON, v. : zn All things the motorist must buy to hnvc a corking time, are so absurdly, beastly high, the prices are a crime. Gns costs so much the buyer swears and madly paws tho ground; I've bought a span of old gray marcs to haul my car around. The gait they hit is sad "and strange, their progress is a joke, they're spavined and they have the mange, but thoy don't leave me broke. It takes the income of the rich to buy a set of tires; and when one prices oil and sich, he gurgles and expires. ex-pires. Tho punk mechanic with his tools calls for your final red; so go and buy a span of mules and hittch thqni to a sled, Five years ago I'd drive all day, and then at night return, and when I put the car away 1 still had coin to burn. Five years ago mechanics mechan-ics stout made my old boat work fine; they took tho measly carbon out and got the valves in line. Their charges never set me back so much that I would sweat; but now I've bought a brindled yak to haul my wagonette. Five years ago but what's the use? Tho dead years are on ice; now any seven cent excuse will do to hoist the price. . -oo |