YOU CAN’T. You can’t cure a ham with a hammer, You can’t weigh a gram with a grammar, Mend cocks with a socket, Build docks with a docket, Nor gather up clams with a damor. You can’t pick locks 'with a pickle. You can’t cure the sick with a sickle, Pluck figs with a figment, Drive pigs with a pigment, Not make your watch tick with a tickle. You can’t make a mate of a mater, You can’t get a crate with a crater. Catch moles with a molar, Bake rolls with a roller, But yon can get a wait from a waiter. You can’t raise crops with a cropper, You can’t shave yonr chops with achopper, Break nags with a nagger, Shoot stags with a stagger, Nor pop the question with a popper. •Picayune,
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Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 9
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135Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 9
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