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Stock Market
Quotations
From the Works of
SOPHRONIA TIBBS
Collected by
and
LEONARD HATCH
Illustrated' by HERBrROTH
New York
192.6
PRINTED IN THE U.
FOR THE
S.
A.
To
To
Those
This Garland of
Song
is
Fondly Dedicated
Street
and
Those
Contents
PAOE
Wall
Street
The Opening
Tip
The
The Broker
Dividend
IO
11
16
Bonds
18
The Pool
10
The
Cutting a Melon
Luncheon Time
The Stenographer
2.6
Selling Short
18
Big Operator
30
31
34
The
Around
the
Ticker
36
The Lamb
38
40
The Panic
4*-
The Closing
44
When Evening
Comes
46
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Preface
(in
the approved
manner)
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on a lattice out of the way of a parasitical trapweed just beneath. Inevitably there flashed into
my mind her celebrated couplet :
We should always
be
You remember, it
begins
At any
My
world.
For it must
to
as
. . . the throbbing financial marts of trade
Where men and their souls are marred or made.
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onions."
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Wall
Street
a few.
2.
A
great many brokers offer
To assist you
till their
last breath
The Opening
The Stock Market opens at ten o'clock,
And all about the members flock;
For exactly five hours they will try
To buy stocks low and sell them high.
If of that they cannot make a go,
At least they can buy them high and sell them low.
So step up, ladies and gents, the Market is open.
is
open
The Tip
A tip is very quiet,
It doesn't make much
noise;
But what a sacred thing it is
Among the Wall Street boys.
Tis passed
bonds
To immediately buy.
It
"tip."
THE TIP
'Tis
The Broker
When stocks go up, he seems to think
That they will never drop;
But when way, way, way down they sink
He fears they'll never stop.
When Bulls are plenty as can be,
Then nothing else will do;
But when the Bears get busy, he
Puts on a bear-skin too.
Sometimes he's talkative as sin,
Sometimes he won't say nothing,
In other words,
That
he
He'll
say
it might
be
9
wise to buy,
The Dividend
"Hurrah, the dividend check has come;
The postman brought it today;
Of course it is not a very large sum,
But 'twill help us on our way.
shoes,
"Of
course
these things;
10
II
check has come
messages pour,
claims
They consider that a mean trick to interfere with
their aims ;
Also elections and legislation they consider bad biz.
They'd like to see everything in the world stay
just as it is.
13
very
14
To
it has always
16
17
Bonds
When some extra money is needed
By any of the foreign nations,
Or when the same predicament
Is encountered by our own corporations,
They get out an issue of bonds
To tempt the public with tempting percents;
And they leave the matter of selling these
gents.
"Heavily over-subscribed"
And
if you
are a
widow or orphan,
a penny,
"Heavily over-subscribed"
19
The Pool
You'd think anything which is called
Pool
A pool is
Night!"
zo
But
for they've
gone to
Palm Beach
Cutting
Melon
Each get
a slice.
say "melon"
Has never been understood,
Why they
If they
said
"pie" or "cucumber"
'Twould do just
as good.
11
Each
.
.
.
get
a slice.
2-3
Luncheon Time
The Market opens at ten o'clock,
It does not close till three,
But at noon the stomach feels it cannot
Wait till it's time for tea.
For
Neither a
messenger
2-5
nor Morgan
The Stenographer
A girl who is fond of admiration
Cannot do better than a situation
As Wall Street stenographer, because then
She is surrounded by many men.
For
Street stenographer
2.6
2-7
Selling Short
Oh, roller-skating 's exciting,
And so are volcanoes too,
And a good old-fashioned blizzard
Will put you in quite a stew;
But of all exciting pastimes,
Or any kind of sport,
There's nothing quite so thrilling
As the game of Selling Short.
It isn't
merely selling
Something which you have got;
It's much more complicated,
You sell what you have not.
And the thing that makes it exciting
(If you don't believe me, try it)
Is that after you have sold it
You have simply got to buy it.
2.8
"Bull;"
Frequently he
To
If you
And yet
30
Until at last
he became so immersed
Many
it
a fact
For
If you
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33
Tis
34
Or at least beer;
For some look glum, and some look mad,
And some look pleased, and some look sad,
As they peer.
Some are grumbling to their neighbors,
Some look willing to cut up capers,
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37
The Lamb
Little Lambs,
Do not roam,
Stay at home;
Little Lambs,
In
twink
Don't
be rash.
Little Lambs,
Don't play the fool,
But save your wool;
Wall Street shears
Will bring
you tears.
Little Lambs,
Oh, beware!
Have a care !
In that lair
Wolves are there.
38
39
At college he was
mighty athlete;
It was a wonderful thing to see
Him run right past the opposing tacklers;
Now
40
The Panic
The bottom's dropped out of the Market,
It simply will not stay,
And so the newsboys are shouting:
"Panic on Wall Street today!"
Stocks go lower and lower
As if they would never stop;
Of failures and of suicides
There is a largish crop.
Of course, after
an endless time,
Lowest levels the Market reaches;
And what
a lesson
it teaches
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"Panic
on
Wall
43
Street today!"
The Closing
Three o'clock has struck at last,
All the day's transactions are past;
With the setting of the sun,
Some have lost and some have won.
If you
For
three
is past,
o'clock has struck at last.
one more day
44
45
Although
46
All
day they have worked hard on the Street
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