Jack And Me.

Shine! All right; here y'are, boss!                 Do it for jest five cents.             Get 'em fixed in a minute,                 That is, 'f nothing perwents.             Set your foot right there, sir.                 Mornin's kinder cold,             Goes right through a feller,                 When his coat's a gittin' old.             Well, yes, call it a coat, sir,                 Though 't aint much more 'n a tear.             Git another! I can't, boss;                 Ain't got the stamps to spare.             "Make as much as most on 'em!"                 Yes; but then, yer see,             They've only got one to do for,                 There's two on us, Jack and me.             Him? Why, that little feller                 With a curus lookin' back,             Sittin' there on the gratin',                 Warmin' hisself, that's Jack.             Used to go round sellin' papers,                 The cars there was his lay;             But he got shoved off of the platform                 Under the wheels one day.             Fact, the conductor did it,                 Gin him a reg'lar throw,             He didn't care if he killed him;                 Some on 'em is just so.             He's never been all right since, sir,                 Sorter quiet and queer;             Him and me goes together,                 He's what they call cashier.             Style, that 'ere, for a boot-black,                 Made the fellers laugh;             Jack and me had to take it,                 But we don't mind no chaff.             Trouble! not much, you bet, boss!                 Sometimes, when biz is slack,             I don't know how I'd manage                 If 't wa'n't for little Jack.             You jest once orter hear him:                 He says we needn't care             How rough luck is down here, sir,                 If some day we git up there.             All done now, how's that, sir?                 Shines like a pair of lamps.             Mornin'! Give it to Jack, sir,                 He looks after the stamps.