A MOST PERSISTENT BEGGAR.
When yon’vo served your fussy client with a upon your face, When you'vo finished mailing erraiai boys m squirm, Will you idvo a moment’s bearing, just by way of kindly grace. To n gentlemen who represents his firm ? He’s a most persistent beggar and Ins ei! o,-.ry is great, But ; customers nurt take bun as ti ■ 1 find aim ; i lie’s eh-.tqtid throughout the country, bv.--ki.if/ orders up to dale, And im doesn’t Have co very much b-'lir.i l him ! Bi*r fi;;; i ; -.mail firm ; firm of ir.ercbar.t
Fif y thousand travellers, all with the same old cry! Kach of them doing his level best to sell all sorts of things. Ami begging, while your credit s good, you'll buy —buy—buy.
There .vo firms ho called on boldly, 'asking no permission to, For lie know ho wouldn't g<?t it if he
d,d. t , There are firms who pay up pnnc.ual when I* m prompts ;nv tenum From others ho’ll iwi hke.y K- J - R quid. Th.-ro are some he "da too muca w. They’re not sorry wh-n he’s pout. K too persidi.olls beggar they ma y find him; But you mustn’t blame if sometimes ho puis eiit'M p os-n;"J on, y , .»,» !,r sorrv if lie 101 l a want btmmd
him. Bm-wig; small fry ; chap like a belted ” rarl; . JU tion nuivbo or a ptibhcm, allot them
ha vino a try. Each of them doing his loved neat. (You’ll seldom find him a churl.) Fill his book, tor your credii’s good, and buy, buy, buy!
There are travellers by thousands, ret too bashful what they speak, And they’re slickers when they once begin to spout; . The-tf 'have fairly tidy exes paia’em punctual once a vovk, ’Game it co-ts them just a trifle when they’re out. Ho’s a most persir>)«.t beggar, and rc won’t forget to c iil, And his clients didn’t need to send to lind him He’ll get his line and book it ; and the job that’s best of all Is to know that there’s but little left behind him.
Bi ,r job; small job; he has so clean a broom He’ll sweep the docks, ere he leaves tho shop (at leas; he’ll havo a try ! Each man’s doing his level and for more there isn’t room. So fill his book, for you credit’s good, and buy—buy ; buy 1
Now you’ll manage when lie’s coming you can look lum in the nice, Ami toll him: what he’d very much •prefer ; That while you bought from other?, yet you gave Ins firm a place, His opponents (they are many) won’t . demur. He’s a most persistent beggar, and he tries to collar ail, For lie doesn’t want employers to remind him That you sent away the order, when advised that he would call ; So you’ll save the line his rival's left behind him ! Dig line; small line; line to make yon stare. Fifty thousand travellers, nil with th-i same old cry 1 Each of tuem doing his level best. What orders you have to spare? Trot l oom out. for your credit’s good, and buy ; buy ; buy ! ! 1
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 96, 15 January 1901, Page 3
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521A MOST PERSISTENT BEGGAR. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 96, 15 January 1901, Page 3
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