[74] By permission of D. Appleton & Co.


MONEY MUSK

Benjamin F. Taylor

Ah, the buxom girls that helped the boys—

The nobler Helens of humbler Troys—

As they stripped the husks with rustling fold

From eight-rowed corn as yellow as gold,

By the candle-light in pumpkin bowls,

And the gleams that showed fantastic holes