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Peru Pertinent and Impertinent 



Some fellers just has an awful time, 



A-keepin" busy, 

 Loafing' round in clubs ain't no place 



Fer keepin' busy : 

 Seems to me there's mischief brewin' 

 In them fellers sittin' there stewiu'. 

 Shame they ain't got work ter 



Keep 'em busy. 



Us fellers in the lumber game 



Is always busy. 

 A-sellin' stock and hustlin' cars 



Keeps us busy : 

 We're on the job from morn till six. 

 Sortin' piles that's in a mix. 

 Us fellers just has got to stick — 



An' keep busy. 



Keepin' Busy 



Now just look at them financeers 



A-keepin' busy, 

 Makin' money easy as not by 



Keepin' busy ; 

 There's Morgan and there's Rockefeller, 

 And the piles of coin they got is yeller, 

 Why, that just ought to make a feller 



Keep busy. 



My rich friends say as I should rest 



From keepin' busy. 

 An' finish my work and stop my quest 



Of keepin' busy ; 

 Why, I'm always in an awful fix, 

 Collectin' accounts or settlin' kicks. 

 Don't never see no chance at all 



From keepin' busy. 



OIN TRIAL 



When night comes 'round I'm tuckered out, 



Fer keepin' busy. 

 An' the hay seems soft an' restful like. 



After keepin' busy ; 

 As my eyes they close and I starts to doze, 

 I wonder's if the idle folks ever knows 

 What fun a feller has as shows 



He's always keepin' busy. 



Now comes the man with hard luck tale. 



With orders scarce and tew. 

 Some customer must help him out. 



Is his appeal to you. 

 His method doesn't sell the goods 



Xo you or other men. 

 And he leaves without an order. 



Vowing ne'er to come again. 



Uncle Sam: I'm entrusting this business to you and your friends — it's up to you to make good and hold your jobs. 



A Fitting Pair 

 "Jinks and his wife are well matched." 

 "In what way?" 



"She can't cook a dinner without burning 

 something, and he can't sit down to one with- 

 out roasting somebody. — Baltimore American. 



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Domestic Discipline 



Peck — "You will never get the dog to mind 

 you, my dear." 



Mrs. Peck — "I will with patience. You 

 were just as troublesome yourself at first." 

 — Boston Evening Transcript. 



How to Travel 



"When I go on a trip I never know what I 

 ought to take w-ith me." 



"Oh, I do: it's quite simple. I take all 

 my dresses and leave my husband behind." 

 — Lii Tie Parisienne. 



