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<p>Every word of that I grant,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> She said without a pant.</span><br />
It fills your space from day to day<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> If that’s your only slant.</span><br />
But you have cars and other things,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> That you have got to sell,</span><br />
Or else your space will be to let,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> And that you know, full well.</span>
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<p><span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> Taken from life—The “Ad” writer’s life.</span>
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<p>We've always tried in every way<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> To do our level best.</span><br />
We're guided by our better half<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> In everything but rest.</span><br />
She says our light and humor lines<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> Is not the stuff that mingles,</span><br />
If we would all men have them read,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> We must cut out the jingles.</span>
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<p>We've tried it once, we’ve tried it twice,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> We've tried it many times.</span><br />
To argue with our better half,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> It’s cost us lots of dimes.</span><br />
A woman set, is hard to get,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> In threes or twos or singles.</span><br />
Her word was last, she said it fast,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> You'd best cut out the jingles.</span>
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<p>Another tack we took and tried<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> To argue once again.</span><br />
Ver-sa-tile we did advance,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> Was like the sun and rain.</span><br />
But all we said with accent true,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> Rebounded in our face,</span><br />
We were left both deaf and dumb,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> We fell out of the race.</span>
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<p>Our case we tried to argue<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> And said you understand,</span><br />
To write each day as one would pray<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> Is not at our command.</span><br />
Like other men we claim to be,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> With but a single mind,</span><br />
And what suits us will suit them, too,<br />
<span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 2em;"> And other human kind.</span>
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<p>The Doctor caught his throat convulsively.<br />
“Oh—ah—fourteen—fourteen.”
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<p>“No room,” the night clerk said. “Unless——”<br />
Woodsville’s a place of shrieks and wandering lamps<br />
And cars that shock and rattle—and one hotel.
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<p>“A man.”
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<p>“A Doctor?”
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<p>“I know him: he’s all right. A man’s a man.<br />
Separate beds of course you understand.”
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<p>“I’ll have to have a bed.”
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<p>“Really, friend, I can’t let you. You—may need them.”
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<p>“You see I’m in with everybody, know ’em all.<br />
I almost know their farms as well as they do.”
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<p>“Well, a teacher.”
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<p>“Known it since I was young.”
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<p>“You seem to shape the paper’s policy.”
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<p>“You’d say so, Mister Man.—I’m a collector.<br />
My ninety isn’t mine—you won’t think that.<br />
I pick it up a dollar at a time<br />
All round the country for the Weekly News,<br />
Published in Bow. You know the Weekly News?”
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<p>“Oh,<br />
Because I want their dollar. I don’t want<br />
Anything they’ve not got. I never dun.<br />
I’m there, and they can pay me if they like.<br />
I go nowhere on purpose: I happen by.<br />
Sorry there is no cup to give you a drink.<br />
I drink out of the bottle—not your style.<br />
Mayn’t I offer you——?”
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<p>“Lafe was the name, I think?”
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