The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1907-05-10
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When the gentle MinaeAaha
Asked for CARRIERS o. teF zeeestrieEs
IIiawatha radsly Hcolded
Told her ihey must save their money,
Told her he was not spandthFtft,
Told her il she wanted garters
She could use piece Of clethesiine
Hlawatha got 80 stlngy
That he even seemed 10 worry
When he saw sweet Minnehaha
Eating butter on her tiapjacks.
AT the present price of BUTTER
He declared, Eve can't afford IL,
Axle grease should be sufficient,
Dear, to lubricate yom palate
He shut of on ten and coffee.
Gave up smoking and quit chewing,
All he seemed, indeed, TO live for
Was the joy of boarding money.
People offered him fair chances,
Now and then, to make investments,
But be turned his back upon them.
He was filed with dark suspicious,
He would neither take a mortgage
Nor consent to put dollar
Into any corporation,
Any enterprise whatever
Where the interest seemed certain
To reach per cent per annum.
.'They are sharpers," he would murmur,
"All these chaps are wicked swindiers;
They would take away my money,
All my dear and hard-earned savings,
They would put in their own pockets,
But they can't fool Hiawatha;
! am much toe sharp an Injun
To be taken in or bunkoed !"
Once man who owned splendid
Farm hard by thriving city
Found himself In straits and offered
1t for half its honest value.
Hiawatha wouldn't touch It.
mot for me-" he hoarsely murmured,
There's some catch about it somewhere
Hiawatha's no spring chicken
So he kept on saving, saving: 3
In a year the farm he wouldn't
Buy was sold again for nearly
Twice the price that he had scoffed at.
Yet he kept on boarding, boarding,
Wouldn't even buy a tooth brush
For his dusky Minnehaha;
Made her wear one pair of stockings
Till she could not longer darn them.
Made her live on hucl leberries
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Made her even take in washing
So that he might swell. his hoardings.
But one day he got letter
From a kind gent in Chicago
Who proposed to take the money
Hoarded up by Hiawatha
And for each and every dollar
Give him back three dollars monthly"
He vouchsafed no explanation,
Merely said that he would do 1t,
Merely said "Come, Hiawatha;
Bring your money in a satchel,
Fetch it to me in a bundle:
Never mind about my method;
1t is foolish to ask questions;
Hurry, though--you'll have to hurry
For my time is very precious"
Hiawatha took his savings,
Babe good-by to Minnehaha
And departed, thinking fondly
OF the wonderful investment
That the smooth gent in Chicago
Had so kindly put him next to.
Hiawatha lost his money,
He was bunkoed to finish:
They got after him and skinned him;
In the old get-rich-quick fashion.
All, but why blame Hiawatha
For his foolishness, his blunder2
He was but simple 1njun;
Do not white men who would never
Try legitimate investments,
Fearing they should lose their money,
Give their all to sharpers daily
Take their dear, their hard-earnsd nv
ings,
And, emitting explanations,
Put them into schemes that only
Children or untutored Injuns
Might with reason be expected
To regard as aught but swindles7
Chicago Record Herald.