ISBN: 9781171733850

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ISTHMIAN WAY To bow and scrape and shake your hand, To greet you with a smile so bland That you will think no other friend Can toward you half the good intend; But still to cherish in one's heart Enough rank hate to fill a cart- This is the Isthmian way. To buy for gold and silver pay; To Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ISTHMIAN WAY To bow and scrape and shake your hand, To greet you with a smile so bland That you will think no other friend Can toward you half the good intend; But still to cherish in one's heart Enough rank hate to fill a cart- This is the Isthmian way. To buy for gold and silver pay; To answer yea while thinking nay, To borrow some one's little wealth, And leave the country for one's health; To plot and scheme and slyly seek To make some decent man a sneak- This is the Isthmian way. To kiss the man who wins success, And kick the man whose luck is less; To make of vice beatitude, And virtue of ingratitude! Accept all favors, but omit To e'er return the benefit- This is the Isthmian way. To curry favor with the great, And pander to one's meanest trait; To smash the Decalogue to bits, But give your neighbor's weakness fits! Oppress the weak, uphold the strong- In short, do everything that's wrong- This is the Isthmian way. To wage a miasmatic strife, And suffer all the ills of life; To eat and drink one's self to death, And curse God with one's latest breath; And then a " heavenly mansion " fill Prepared for one on Monkey Hill - This is the Isthmian way. God grant that haply some of us Escape the general animus, And travel, though but falteringly, The nobler path of charity: Tho' stumbling often, still to find More cleanly records left behind Than by the Isthmian way. The cemetery. THE FUNERAL TRAIN Thrust her in the dead-car box! Jump aboard-let's have a ride! Ring the merry engine bell: Death has claimed another bride! Pass the gin to every one, Pull the throttle open wide- Pobre de solemnidad! Now we start-we round the curve- Down the busy street we go! There is Gardner's circus-tent, And to-night we'll see Books, History~~General, Panama-Patchwork~~James-Stanley-Gilbert, 999999999, Panama Patchwork, James Stanley Gilbert, 1171733852, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

2010, ISBN: 9781171733850

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