Fifty bucks cash and when she paid it back it was fifty dollars plus fifty cents.
Local Hillsdale judges used to send vagrants to the poor house (Farm really) where they could earn meals, a roof over their heads, and a place to sleep.
Will Carleton was a pretty prolific poet. I’m not a big fan of poetry but his is interesting and different.
http://www.poetrycat.com/will-carleton