Of the days that, alas! we shall never see more,

When clutching a large silver coin in my fingers,

I hurried along to the grocery store,

And there purchased flour and bacon and coffee.

And prunes in a package, and apricots canned,

Two gallons of coal-oil, a half pound of toffee,

And still held some change, when I left, in my hand.

The big iron dollar

The good, honest dollar,

The hundred-cent dollar