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                 THOMAS CRAPPER  -------------  UNSUNG HERO
                        1837                      1919
                               BY DAVE KNEESHAW



THOMAS CRAPPER' THE PLUMMERS MENTOR
      AND HIS VALVELESS WATER WASTE PREVENTER;
BOON TO MANKIND' PAST AND PRESENT;
      HAS MADE OUR LIVING' FAR MORE PLEASANT.
BORN IN EIGHTEEN-THIRTY - SEVEN;
      APPRENTICE PLUMMER AT AGE ELEVEN.
BLESSINGS ON HIS BIRTHPLACE' THORNE'
      IN MERRY ENGLAND'WHERE HE WAS BORNE.
AN UNSUNG HERO' ALAS ! FORSOOTH !
      HE PERFECTED THE FLUSHER'AND THATS THE TRUTH.
SO' WHY THESE HUMBLE LINES OF VERSE ?
      WITHOUT HIM' LIFE WOULD BE MUCH WORSE.
TRULY AN ARTIST IN EVERY SENSE;
      HIS CONTRIBUTION WAS MOST IMMENSE.
BY HIS MERGER OF CHINA'AND PIPE'AND GROUT'
      THE WONDEROUS BIFFY WAS BROUGHT ABOUT.
MORE THAN A THRONE OF HUMBLE DUTY;
      CRAPPER MADE IT A THING OF BEAUTY.
ENSCONCED WITH DESIGN OF VARIOUS HUE;
      A TRULY REMARKABLE THING TO VIEW.
NO MORE TRIPS TO THE SHED' OUTSIDE;
      HOUSED INDOORS WITH POMP AND PRIDE.
NO MORE CLATTER BENEATH THE BED;
    INSHRINED IN ITS OWN LITTLE ROOM INSTEAD.
NO LONGER A VESSEL OF VAST DISDAIN;
      A MARVELOUS CHAMBER OF CHINA AND CHAIN.
MY FRIENDS' WEVE COME A LONG'LONG WAY;
      THE' OUTDOOR PRIVY IS GONE TO STAY.
BUT' ALAS: POOR CRAPPER HAS LONG SINCE DIED.
      SO' SHED A TEAR' AND FLUSH WITH PRIDE.

ORIGINATED FOR RTTY BY GORDY,WB7OKG,MOUNTLAKE TERRACE,WASHINGTON

