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Show THE CANADIAN -SKIP. "When cash is gone and lif e grows weary, And everything is running down; When pocketbooks are empty nearly, And creditors make hot the town "When at the bank or in the office. Among the funds your fingers dip, Be 'warned by one who is no novice, Just take a friend's advice and skip. Skip! skip! for Canada's free oities. 'Tis there you have them on the hip, No horrid extradition treaties Among the men who wisely skip, If you have bagged a hundred thousand, You safely there can salt it down; ... Nor know the dread of beak or warrant, Either from the president or crown, Tour days will pass a dream of pleasure, No lawyer's greed your wealth can strip, No tradesmen's fingers touch your treasure, If to the land of ease you skip. Skip! skip! across the neutral border We crook the finger and curl the lip; . Her Majesty has given the order That sacred makes the men who skip. Society of every color Here greets the traveler for his health, We worship still the mighty dollar, . , And here we all do good by stealth. The gay embezzler, fraud, or swindler; The man who loves his neighbor's wife; The crook, the fence, find naught to hinder Their leading here a merry life. Skip! skip! to this retreat Elysian, Give Unole Sam the quite slip; ' As long as there's no extradition, Just take a friend's advice, and skip. C. S. twiV. Y. Sun.: |