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There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard -- / Cunning, treacherous, suspicious -- feeling softly -- grasping hard -- / Brainy, yet without the courage to forsake the beaten track -- / Cautiously they feel their way behind a bolder spirit's back.
If you save a bit of money, and you start a little store -- / Say, an oyster-shop, for instance, where there wasn't one before -- / When the shop begins to pay you, and the rent is off your mind, / You will see another started by a chap that comes behind.