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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357607" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hopeful Hawkins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat,<br>And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;<br>But, in justice, be it said that he had a business head.<br>(That's why I'm standing here and telling this.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was trav'ling for a company, insuring people's lives;<br>And stayed about a month in Dingo Flat;<br>But his biz was rather dull, and we took him for a gull,<br>An amazing simple-minded one at that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was mad, he was, on mining and around about the town<br>Prospected every reef. But worse than that <br>He'd talk for half a day, in a most annoying way,<br>On 'The mineral resources of the Flat.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He swore that somewhere nigh us was a rich gold-bearing red,<br>If a fellow only had the luck to strike it;<br>And he only used to laugh when the boys began to chaff,<br>And seemed, in fact, to rather sort of like it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, we stood him for a month until he well nigh drove us mad.<br>And as jeering couldn't penetrate his hide<br>We fixed a little scheme for to dissipate his dream,<br>And sicken him of mining till he died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We got a likely-looking bit of quartz and faked it up<br>With dabs of golden paint; then called him in.<br>Oh, he went clean off his head; it was gold for sure, he said.<br>And if we'd sell our claim he'd raise the tin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we weren't taking any-not at least till later on;<br>For we reckoned that we'd string him on a while.<br>When he wanted information of the reef's exact location<br>We would meet him with a knowing sort of smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last we dropped a hint that set him pegging out a claim,<br>And we saw that we were coming in for sport;<br>For the next account we heard was when Hawkins passed the word<br>He was fetching up an expert to report.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we heard that expert's verdict we were blown clean out of time,<br>And absorbed the fact that we had fallen in.<br>The gold, he said, would run 'bout four ounces to the ton;<br>With traces, too, of copper, zinc and tin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Hawkins he was jubilant, and up at Peter's store<br>A lovely lot of specimens was showing;<br>And we gazed at them and groaned, for the truth had to be owned:<br>We had put him on a pile without our knowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We couldn't let the thing slip through our fingers, so to speak.<br>There were thousands in the mine without a doubt.<br>So me and Baker Brothers, and half a dozen others,<br>We formed a syndicate to buy him out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, he said he'd not the money to develop such a claim,<br>And he'd sell it if we made a decent bid.<br>So we made pretence at dealing, and it almost seemed like stealing<br>When he parted, for five hundred lovely quid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We haven't seen the vendor in the Flat for nigh a week,<br>And we're wishing, on the whole, he'd never come.<br>The confounded mine's a duffer; for that simple-minded buffer<br>He had salted it. The 'expert' was a chum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hawkins wasn't reckoned much at all in Dingo Flat.<br>We'd a notion that his headpiece was amiss.<br>But we wish to have it stated, he was rather underrated.<br>(That's why I'm standing here and telling this.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;
But, in justice, be it said that he had a business head.
(That's why I'm standing here and telling this.)

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