Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — THE BILL GAME. [ARTICLE]

THE BILL GAME.

I ■£ ! hat money carries germs. For I ha\-e often seen evidence that full confirms This sordid fact and mean l i Ve felt the awf “l truth. And suffered from the crash „ at often rises from the truth That there be germs In cash. I loved a maiden sweet and fair, I loved her deeply, too: AH golden was her bonny hair. Her eyes were wond’rous blue, one promised one day to be mine My own beloved'wife, nßre with Joyousness divine The dark ways of my life. And then a bunch of money came— Alas, that it should be! And she I’d thought to bear my nam» Turned chilly unto me. «f e the summer days had sped My heart was sorely hit—that fickle maiden skipped and wed lhe germ that came with It! John Kendrick Bangs, In Puck.