Buy Your Own Cherries

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box thats just been delivered When she refuses a cherry to a roughlydressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar he pays off his debt in a huff using all his weeks pay He then storms penniless and without provisions into his illfurnished house where his wife and two children illclad and illfed cower Is there any hope for him and for his family If he does realize how low hes sunk what help is there to lift him up Will the family ever know the taste of cherries