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Show Is 1 v Rippling' j Rhymes jj 4 J THE WINNERS I Have j'ou read the helpful ' stories which are printed now and then, dish-; dish-; Ing up the dazzling glories of the big successful men? This one made a million mil-lion dollars, that one made a million seeds; so the awestruck author hollers, as he celebrates their deeds. This I ono's living in a palace, built of pink J Imported rock, and from out a golden j chalice he consumes his private stock.-And stock.-And I think it rather funny, and I I think it rather odd. that the measure's ' alwaj's monej', alwaj's is the big man's wad. For there are some four-time winners you have heard of once or j twice, men who went without their dinners when thej' couldn't raise the price; and I hold them great successes though they never had a roU though privations and distresses kept them al-waj'a al-waj'a In tho hole. And I'd rather stagger stag-ger under the renown of Edgar Poe than be burdened with the plunder t-t 'Jc biggest plute I know. And ppor Bobble Burns was busted till they put him in a crate, but I'll surelj' be dis- gusted It you sav he wasn't great. We j should be cautious in choosing those who win ana those who fall, for the gent who's surely losing may bo loaded load-ed down with kale. oo i |