The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
BILLS.

Oh, the bills,
CcaselesS bills,
What world of happiness their endless
coming kills!
How they keep on multiplying
AS the toiler tolls away,
Bravely trying, trying, trying,
(While his wife is buying)
To get even with the world again some
Grocery bills,
Butchers bills,
Bills for water, bills for plumbing, bills
for coal.
Bills that rend the patient heart and
warp the soul!
Bills for milk
And bills for silk;
Bills for thread
And bills for bread!
Doctors bills AMI Dentists bills;
Servants bills and nurses bills
Bills that make the victim wish that he
were dead
And forever free from bills, bills, bills,
Out Of Sight and out of hearing of the
ones who give him chills
With their bills
The discOura ging and everlasting bills,
bills, bills, bills, bills, bills, bills,
The accommodating terrors of the bills!
Here q victim yields a hammer or the
saw;
There another delves in nusty books of
law,
And here one slowly scratches with the
Signing Sadly,
As he madly
Tries to think Of things that maybe
when in print, will tickle men!
They would claim?
Does the porter or the teamster merely
strive to win name
That will make his children proud of him
some day?
70 Does the writer or the lawyer
Or the merchant or the sawyer
Strive away
Just because its fun to do So or fro,o
force of habit? Nay!
The never ending bills there are TO nav
Make the joker think of funny things
Make the lawyer thunder fercely at the
Keep the saIlow motorman with the
OF death upon him clinging to his car,
Oh, the bills.
The bills, bills, billsi
From the markets and +he mile
Come the bills
come the SOul-deStrOying hills
Come the bills for little Shirts
Ana Tor little coats and caps
come the bills for swishing skirts
And for SQuilIS
And for castor oil and pillsI
All: the bills
bills, bills, "1i1'' "illS'
The never ceasing bother Of tba hills,
IIhe9iy tel us now there isn't any hole
FUll Of fire to receive the wicked soI1I.
Th9t there isn't any Satan down be.
low NC
Who instilIs
Sinful purpose in people here bu+ nh
There are hills zig
Tbat bring hate and discomfort,
There are bills for food and rent
And a n1illinn other things
Fen if Little Myrtle sings
If she trills-
Her music teacher brings
In his billsi
Bills for cutting, bills for sewing,
6IIis for shrouds and bills for bibs;
Bills for coming, bills for going,
Bills for collins and for cribs
bllls Tor everything but breathing, al
And for every bill YOU pay, a dozen
Seem to be where only one appeared
Oh. the bills. bills, bills, biz bills,
The accumullating terrors of the bills!
AND yet who would ever rise
Here below the sunny skies
Who would study to be wise.
va would ever seek a prize
Who would toll
In the soil
Or with hammer or with pen.
80 Fould ever brave the thrills
That he feels whose fellow men
cave him praise
If the bills
Never came to daUnt or daze?
IL We e;1 never heard Of bills, bills, Ills,
The awful and the everlasting biIls9
= T. hlser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
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