To_let

by George Albert Leddy

Just off the bar, there was a room; and Gus, he thought one day:

“That’s quite a busy little place—I’ll have to make it pay.”

So he took the “i” out of the name, and made it read: “To_let.”

You see, he wanted all the dough, he possibly could get.

And then he got a Patent lock, and nailed it over the door.

He sighed, “I wonder why I didn’t think of that before?

This room, it came to me, you see, with the hotel that I bought.

So, to get in here, you’ll have to drop—a nickel in the slot.”

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