George Albert "Bert" Leddy worked for many years and eventually retired from the Strong Hardware store which was on Main St. in Burlington, Vermont. Many of the poems he wrote in his later years were about the people he worked with at the store. Pals I Remember, a parody of The Night Before Christmas, mentions everyone by name who was working at the store at Christmastime 1947.   The story of Gilbert Hendry and of Ronald MacDonald were humorous ballads about their migrations to America. The Adventure of Agustus T. Stanard starts on the wrong-side-of-the-tracks then follows Guss' circuitous trail of employment and businesses, which included The Lincoln Inn, back to the hardware store. The poem To_let was found scribbled on the back of a Strong Hardware receipt and told of how Guss came to install a pay toilet in the bar. Poems to Arlene, Fred Casey, Janet, Marion, Pauline, and Wilfred were composed and presented at their wedding dinners. Aleana Viens (a.k.a. Arlene), who had only worked at the store for a year right out of high school, recently contributed To Our Izzy and My Valentine, a poem Bert wrote for her 1948. He would had been 64 years old at the time. She describes him as a tease.