INEXPENSIVE GUESTS

By Ring Lardner

I wonder how‘ twould make you feel,

My fellow food providers,

To have as guests at ev'ry meal

Three — count‘ em, three — outsiders.

Well, that's the case with me, but still

I do n't complain or holler,

For, strange to say, the groc'ry bill

Has not gone up a dollar.

These guests of ours, to make it brief,

Ca n't really chew or swallow;

They're merely dolls, called Indian Chief,

And Funny Man, and Rollo.