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“I’d like to know,” said Amos Green,

     One night in Stokes’s store,

“What’s wrong with all them furrin’ jobs

     Thet folks don’t want no more?

Time was when any man alive.

     Men wealthy, staunch an’ true,

Would hev been an Ambassador

     To France or Timbuctoo.

“Now jobs go beggin’ day by day,

     Nobuddy wants to go

To loaf around with kings an’ dukes

     With all their pump an’ show.

Woodrow is hevin’ awful luck

     To git folks, seems to me,

To represent his Uncle Sam

     In lands acust the sea.

“Now I don’t want to push myself

     In promernence, not me;

The office it should seek the man,

     Hez been my teachin’, see?

But if they’re too hard put why I,

     To ‘comundate, I swore,

I think I’d take the matter up,”

     Said Green in Stokes’s store.

March 26, 1913

                             Friday the 28,