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Then Stein the peddler with rising joy

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Then Stein the peddler with rising joy
by Robert Ervin Howard

First published in The Last of the Trunk och Brev i Urval (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. June 1930

1894231Then Stein the peddler with rising joyRobert Ervin Howard

Then Stein the peddler with rising joy,
Said: “We were at Brooklyn bridge;
“We worked our grafts at Perth-Amboy
“And up on the Denver ridge.
“Before Fort Wayne, on Racine’s plain,
“Chicago, Frisco, Brent,
“From Monterey to the coasts of Maine,
“Wherever a dime was spent.
“We’ve rooked the Yank from the Hudson’s bank
“To the hills of Mexico,
“And there’s still a tip for another gypp,
“Cohen and Stein and Moe.”
“Well, here’s to honest good thieving blood,
“Cohen and Stein and Moe.”

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