<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour <br>Just to invent a fancy style<br>To spread the celebration paint<br>So it would show at least a mile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some things they did I will not tell.<br>They're not quite proper for a rhyme.<br>But I will say Yim Yonson Swede<br>Did sure invent a sunflower time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One thing they did that I can tell <br>And not offend the ladies here:—<br>They took a goat to Simp's Saloon<br>And made it take a bath in beer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That ENTERprise took MANagement.<br>They broke a wash-tub in the fray.<br>But mister goat was bathed all right<br>And bar-keep Simp was, too, they say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wore girls' pink straw hats to church<br>And clucked like hens. They surely did.<br>They bought two HOtel frying pans<br>And in them down the mountain slid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They went to Denver in good clothes,<br>And kept Burt's grill-room wide awake,<br>And cut about like jumping-jacks,<br>And ordered seven-dollar steak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had the waiters whirling round<br>Just sweeping up the smear and smash.<br>They tried to buy the State-house flag.<br>They showed the Janitor the cash.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And old Dan Tucker on a toot,<br>Or John Paul Jones before the breeze,<br>Or Indians eating fat fried dog,<br>Were not as happy babes as these.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One morn, in hills near Cripple-creek<br>With cheerful swears the two awoke.<br>The Swede had twenty cents, all right.<br>But Gassy Thompson was clean broke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vachel+Lindsay">Vachel Lindsay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532832" data-title="When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich de Vachel Lindsay" data-description="He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour Just to invent a fancy style To spread the celebration paint So it would show at least a mile. Some things they did I will not tell. They're not quite proper for a rhyme. But I will say Yim Yonson Swede Did su..."></div> </div> </div>

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