Thrills of a Bell Boy

XIX.

IF yesterday would come to-morrow

There wouldn’t hardly be no sorrow.

For then we’d have another try

At chances that we let go by.

Instead of givin’ luck the blame

We’d grab the good things when they came.

We’d take the best and leave the worst

If all the days came hind-end first.

The fools that stand and wonder now

Would know just when to act and how.

If yesterday would come agen

We’d not say “if” so often then.

We’d turn the merry face to sorrow

If yesterday would come to-morrow.

By S. E. KISER

Love Sonnets of an Office Boy

WITH TWELVE PICTURES BY JOHN T. MCCUTCHEON

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BEN KING’S VERSE

If I Should Die To-Night

If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
Weeping and heartsick o’er my lifeless clay—
If I should die to-night
And you should come in deepest grief and woe
And say, “Here’s that ten dollars that I owe”—
I might arise in my large white cravat
And say, “What’s that?”

If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel—
I say, if I should die to-night
And you should come to me, and there and then
Just even hint ’bout payin’ me that ten,
I might arise the while;
But I’d drop dead again.
(From “Ben King’s Verse”)

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Transcriber’ Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.
- Unbalanced quotation marks were left as the author intended.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.

Thrills of a Bell Boy

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