Well, then at half past one I paid my taxes, With interest, penalties and all the costs. At two o’clock I stood before the bar And to the judge addressed these words: Your Honor, I represent Miss Christine Leichentritt, Miss Garda Gerstenburg, who are in jail Under your Honor’s sentence. I have seen The state’s attorney, who is satisfied To let them go, if all the costs are paid. I went to see him on a matter of taxes, And this came up. The state’s attorney rose And said: Your Honor, they are very young, And though they have been caught before at this, And warned that Winston Prairie is no place For them to ply their trade, I am inclined To think they will not break our laws again. I thought I saw his honor’s eye light up As if it caught a wireless, so he said: “The court is satisfied.” I paid the costs And took Christine and Garda to Chicago. But at the station, as I said good bye, Christine flared up: You don’t suppose that I Will let you pay those costs, I am not cheap. I may be bad, but I am square, she said. And I have money in my room, come on To Twelfth and Wabash and I’ll pay you back For me and Garda. No, I said, go on. Try to be good, but if you can’t be good, Be wise, and do not go to Winston Prairie. I turned and disappeared among the crowds. WILL BOYDEN LECTURES The Sunday after Cato Braden died Will Boyden lectured in the Masons’ Hall Upon the theme, “Was Jesus Really Great?” At first he pointed out that Jesus knew No history except that of the Jews. And if he’d heard of Athens never spoke A word about it, never read a line Of Homer, Sophocles, or Aristotle, Or Plato, or of Virgil, never a word Concerning Egypt’s wisdom, or of India’s. And then he dropped this point with the remark That one could know one’s people’s history And that alone, and still be great, perhaps. But still he thought it was unfortunate That Jesus gave the Hebrews such a lift So that to-day they rule the Occident Where Athens should have ruled, if only Time Had given her the right dramatic touch To catch the populace.