Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the Maumee Express.

For the Mauniee Express.
To THE EprToR.-Dear Hal. The follow
ing jingle was prepared for the use of queer
customer, who does comic songs in the Colum-
bus Theatre, but doubling whether the author
will be blessed with the iruition Of an over
flowing bumper of glory by that "mod. op.," :"
and feeling propensity to see my most poet
cal name in print, send you copy, and if it
should strike your visibility with q single horse
hoof power, you may give it place among
your rare collections of literary lions.
Your most obstickleous,
THAD. THUMP AND SCATTER.
Perrysburg, mo-, day, 1893.
:" Literary LIONS" quotha! It shall have
higher place than that. We III kick the Gil
ratfe out of his stall, and give this tall coon his
standing room. Thad's child of no uncom-
mon merit, that's most transparent. Stand
back-ting- -a-ling-he's of.
SONG.
0, / love steam, as cat loves cream;
And its eulogy I'm jest guine to sing:
Apply it to boat, O, how swimmingy she'll
float,
The moment of the tingle-lingl
And when all have got aboard, and "cast off
there" IS the word,
And the answer is, " cast off it is,"
There's such dramming and damning and
jamming and a acramming and a ram
ming and slamming,
or this that and rother, this way and another,
That all things fly round like whiz.
Your steamboat rides against winds and tides,
1t goes smoking like tar-maker's kiln;
And each and every puff, makes noise loud
+. enough, 4. ,....
A ccppersmiths ears to thrill:
If you r sitting mum or talking, the critter
still keeps walking; s. ..
Bobbing like the boiling of an egg,
Yes, she keeps roaring and snoring and
boring and scoring and pouring and
flooring you; ...
Unless you mind your P's and Q's and stand
as fast as screws,
And as straight as dogs hind leg.
When al's snug aboard your boat, and you've
fairly got afoat,
And gone down below to snooze,
And have stow'd away your hat, and laid down
upon mat,
The moment your peep-holes close;
Your repose is invited, and ., how you're de-
lighted,
With music so charming and rare; + Z
o, there's such belliug and pelmelling and
# propelling and repellng and yelling
and telling
OF all them as has mt paid, to just push ahead,
To Captings Office and pay their fare
When her motion grows more slack, because
fire she doth lack,
For she can't go ahead without eteam;
Then to hear the sooty band, with poker in
hand,
Their soul-stirring medley scream:
"Fire up you young darkies, or LJro yon to de
Sharkies,
And he swoller you alive by jing."
And then such croaking and joking and po-
king and smoking and choking and
coking
All hands to death with heat, and broillng
them like meat,
o, rare are the joys that steamboats, bring.
o, then what sport, as you near the port,
And the passengers prepared to land;
The babble grows more loud as the gangway
they crowd,
With band box and carpet bags on hand;
Then as the driving surf bangs her up against
the wharf,
What order and harmony is there;
Such dashing and splashing and thrash
ing and clashing and smashing and
crashing,
" Sich gittin up stairs in triple files and
pairs,
Ills the gnger-cake of life declare.