And so the dealer charges more for goods to make a dress.
Each day there is some incident to make a man feel sore,
I'm on my knees to ask that nothing happens any more.

It didn't rain in Utah and it did in old Vermont--
Result: it costs you fifty more to take a summer's jaunt;
Upon the plains of Tibet some tornadoes took a roll--
Therefore the barons have to charge a higher price for coal.
A street-car strike in Omaha has cumulative shocks--
It boosted huckleberries up to twenty cents a box.
No matter what is happening it always finds your door--
Give us a rest! Let nothing ever happen any more.

Mosquitoes in New Jersey bite a magnate on the wing--
Result: the poor consumer feels that fierce mosquito's sting:
The skeeter's song is silenced, but in something like an hour
The grocers understand that it requires a raise in flour.
A house burns down in Texas and a stove blows up in Maine,
Ten minutes later breakfast foods in prices show a gain.
Effects must follow causes--which is what I most deplore;
I hope and pray that nothing ever happens any more.




A DISAPPOINTMENT

BY JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY