Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — The Greedy Band. [ARTICLE]

The Greedy Band.

“When he was poor he was a good poet, but prosperity ruined him.”' “How was that?” “As soon as he began getting a dollar a word, he wouldn’t stick to the meter. Insisted on jamming in oxXra words.” -