Racks New Ford

The dashing floods of Crane Pond roared

When Rack rode home in a brand new ford.

Old lizzy stands in the old car shed.

The spotlights gone the engine dead.

A battered car and a sign “For Sale”

Is all that’s left of a car so hale.

“One fifty bucks” he used to say

Now fifty clear is all you’ll pay.

The Eighteen Model Chevrolet

To the Twenty-four Ford has given way.

Ah well ‘tis the same the whole world through

The old must give away to the new

The dashing floods of Crane Pond roared

When Rack rode home in a brand new Ford.

Written by Ida May Schaffer

November 1923

Age of 18