Have You Met Him?

HAVE YOU MET HIM?
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She saw a house “To-let” one day,
As nice as e’er was seen,
From attic high to basement low
‘Twas orderly and clean

It suited her; she asked the price
He named a sum so big,
“Twould make e’en forty-niners dance
A California jig

She eyed him with a stony glare-
“Why don’t you make it higher?
Have you no conscience?”
“Madam, no;
It went up in the fire”
-Marian Taylor