It's simply that the highest bid, in cash paid promptly down,
I've had from any son of SHEM is only half-a-crown.
"The plots cultivated by the men who have learned in the best school of all—experience—stand out clearly among the others. There is no overcrowing on their land."—Evening News.
The truly great are always modest.
"Wanted, September and October, a comfortably Furnished House; five bedrooms, in adjoining counties."—East Anglian Daily Times.
It sounds a little detached.