Upton Sinclair, ed. (18781968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | The Monthly Rent (From The Game of Life) | By Bolton Hall | (American lawyer and single-taxer, born 1854) |
| They sheared the lamb twelve times a year, To get some money to buy some beer; The lamb thought this was extremely queer Poor little snow-white lamb!OLD SONG.
GOD tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, said the deacon. | 1 |
I will shut the gate of the field so as to keep him warm, said the philanthropist. | 2 |
If you give me the tags of wool, said the charity clipper, Ill let the poor creature have half. | 3 |
The lambs we have always with us, said the wool broker. | 4 |
Lambs must always be shorn, said the business man; hand me the shears. | 5 |
We should leave him enough wool to make him a coat, said the profit sharer. | 6 |
His condition is improving, said the land owner, for his fleece will be longer next year. | 7 |
We should prohibit cutting his flesh when we shear, said the legislator. | 8 |
But I intend, said the radical, to stop this shearing. | 9 |
The others united to throw him out; then they divided the wool. | 10 | |
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