GEORGE MACKAY TRAITORS THREE BRUTUS ARNOLD AND FRANKLIN D. SAT IN THE SHADE OF A SOUR APPLE TREE THEIR CONVERSATION TOOK A TURN AS TO WHICH ONE WAS THE MOST TRAITOROUS WORM "IT IS I" CRIED BRUTUS, "I BETRAYED MY FRIEND I DOUBLE CROSSED CAESAR UN TO END: I WON HIS TRUST AND THE HISTORY BOOKS SAY HIS FINAL WORDS WERE 'ET TU BRUTE'." _________________________ "NOT BAD" SAID ARNOLD "BUT LISTEN AWHILE YOUR PUNY RECORD MAKES ME SMILE YOU FOOLED ONLY ONE MAN BUT LOOK AT ME ISOLD OUT A WHOLE ARMY". UP JUMPED FRANKLIN, HAUGHTY AND SURE "YOU BOYS ARE LIKE AND AMATEUR; WHEN I TOOK CHARGE IN '38 A GREAT NATION PLACED HER TRUST IN ME" _________________________ I PROMISED THIS AND I PROMISED THAT I CALMED THEIR FEARS WITH A FIRESIDE CHAT; I SCATTERED MILLIONS RIGHT AND LEFT AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS NO SMALL THEFT I TOLD THEM JUST TO FEEL AT EASE I HAD THEM CHANTING THEIR A.B.C.'S; I PORMISED I WOULD SOAK THE RICH, AIN'T I THE LYIN'EST................ _____________________ "I PROMISED A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY WHERE EVERYONE WOULD BE ROLLIN' IN MONEY; I PROMISED THIS AND WHAT DID I GET? THE GOT RESULTS WHICH WERE ALWAYS WET. THEY CALLED ME THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN I SHOULD HAD BEEN IN A SANITARIUM BLUE BUZZARDS WERE ON EVERY PANE NEW BORN BABIES BARE MY NAME. ________________________ "BEWARE OF WALL STREET I DINNED IN THEIR EARS 'TRUST IN ME AND HAVE NO FEARS. I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE FROM EVERY HARM TO HELL WITH WORK, PLOW UNDER YOUR FARM' THEY BELIEVED IN ME, BOTH HUSBANDS AND WIVES, BUT THE LITTE PIGS RAN FOR THEIR LIVES. THEY ALONE KNEW THEY WERE NO LONGER FREE AS I KILLED THEM OF WITH THE GREATEST OF GLEE _____________________________ I FOOLED THOSE YOKELS BOTH OLD AND YOUNG I WAS THE GREATEST SNOUNDREL TO REMAIL UNHUNG. I'VE RUINED THEIR COUNTRY MY FRIENDS AND THEN I'VE PLACED THE BLAME ON NINE OLD MEN ! BRUTUS STOOD THERE FILLED WITH AWE ARNOLD SAT WITH A FALLEN JAW. THEN BRUTUS SAID "WE'VE HAD OUR FLING GET UP ARNOLD, SALUTE YOUR KING!"

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• MS02.01.20.338
• 1938_1_338

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1938

Date created

• 1938

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/2n49t527m

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.20.338.482

Last modified

• 2023-08-29