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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391042" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tin Bank</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speaking of banks, I'm bound to say<br>That a bank of tin is far the best,<br>And I know of one that has stood for years<br>In a pleasant home away out west.<br>It has stood for years on the mantelpiece<br>Between the clock and the Wedgwood plate--<br>A wonderful bank, as you'll concede<br>When you've heard the things I'll now relate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This bank was made of McKinley tin,<br>Well soldered up at sides and back;<br>But it didn't resemble tin at all,<br>For they'd painted it over an iron black.<br>And that it really was a bank<br>'Twas an easy thing to see and say,<br>For above the door in gorgeous red<br>Appeared the letters B-A-N-K!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bank had been so well devised<br>And wrought so cunningly that when<br>You put your money in at the hole<br>It couldn't get out of that hole again!<br>Somewhere about that stanch, snug thing<br>A secret spring was hid away,<br>But _where_ it was or _how it_ worked--<br>Excuse me, please, but I will not say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thither, with dimpled cheeks aglow,<br>Came pretty children oftentimes,<br>And, standing up on stool or chair,<br>Put in their divers pence and dimes.<br>Once Uncle Hank came home from town<br>After a cycle of grand events,<br>And put in a round, blue, ivory thing,<br>He said was good for 50 cents!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bank went clinkety-clinkety-clink,<br>And larger grew the precious sum<br>Which grandma said she hoped would prove<br>A gracious boon to heathendom!<br>But there were those--I call no names--<br>Who did not fancy any plan<br>That did not in some wise involve<br>The candy and banana man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen; once when the wind went 'Yooooooo!'<br>And the raven croaked in the tangled tarn--<br>When, with a wail, the screech-owl flew<br>Out of her lair in the haunted barn--<br>There came three burglars down the road--<br>Three burglars skilled in arts of sin,<br>And they cried: 'What's this? Aha! Oho!'<br>And straightway tackled the bank of tin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They burgled from half-past ten p.m.,<br>Till the village bell struck four o'clock;<br>They hunted and searched and guessed and tried--<br>But the little tin bank would not unlock!<br>They couldn't discover the secret spring!<br>So, when the barn-yard rooster crowed,<br>They up with their tools and stole away<br>With the bitter remark that they'd be blowed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next morning came a sweet-faced child<br>And reached her dimpled hand to take<br>A nickel to send to the heathen poor<br>And a nickel to spend for her stomach's sake.<br>She pressed the hidden secret spring,<br>And lo! the bank flew open then<br>With a cheery creak that seemed to say:<br>'I'm glad to see you; come again!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you were I, and if I were you,<br>What would we keep our money in?<br>In a downtown bank of British steel,<br>Or an at-home bank of McKinley tin?<br>Some want silver and some want gold,<br>But the little tin bank that wants the two<br>And is run on the double standard plan--<br>Why, that is the bank for me and you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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That a bank of tin is far the best,
And I know of one that has stood for years
In a pleasant home away out west.
It has stood for years on the mantelpiece
Between the clock and the Wedgwood plate--
A wonderful b..."></div>
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