Monday, October 12, 2015

A Good Customer



If you have got something to sell
     Just bring it around to me;
I am the easiest old fish
     That ever you did see.
I bite at anything that drops
     Beneath my waiting nose;
And anglers wait outside my door
     In long and patient rows.

The nursery man, the lightning rod,
     The man with mining stocks;
The journal club, the patent churn,
     The man who peddles clocks.
The man who deals in farming tools,
     The shark in real estate;
Book agents, patent medicines,
     All come within my gate.

If you have got some goods to sell
     No matter what they be,
Please do not pass my house without
     I have a chance to see.
Can’t bear to think that anyone
     Would pass without a call;
I’ve got the buying habit now,
     And want to buy it all.


Oct. 12, ‘09
For Sunday Oct. 17, 09.




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