The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-04-21
ron TIE WIG.
pear nal.

Dear GAHAe
I've built your house quite near the stream,
Where you aad wife, may live and dream,
OF posy days, and pOsy hours,
OF posy streams, and posy flowers,
Or any thing that's handy.
And there your friends, and children dear,
Nav work, or fish, or frolic there,
Or lounge or loter at their ease,
Get drunk, or sober as they please,
For sure you'll keep good brandy.
But. should you ever dream too much,
OF posy phantoms, OF such
Things that always end in air,
Just turn upon your back, and swear
Vengeance against the Owls.
For be assured both now, and ever,
That If your wife is very clever;
She'll try TO raise chance OF chickens,
For fries, for stews, for pies and hXins,
For damn 'em they'll catch the fowls.
And then, you'll have TO fight 'ganst wildcats,
Painters, bears, racoons, and wood-rats,
Weasels, minks, and all such variants,
Mosquitoes, ticks, flies and pisants,
And if not more, don't blame me.
But do not dread those woodland mps,
They:r not so bad as City Pimps,
They'll shrink from dogs, from shot and powder
And if they doI't why damn me.
You've got job before you sure;
OF betting trees whole scores, and more,
OF splitting rails, fencing up,
OF cutting cane, and burning up,
And soforth, and sOforth.
And all will take deal Of iabour,
AS knows fullwell myself, your neighbour;
RAT don9f disD0ir inst come md
First stroke Of axe, meier fell the tree,
But tearlessly go forth.
But though there's Enough in store Of toll,
Natures not niggard in the soil,
Nor does she cater mean, and poorly.
With stinting hand, and manner suTly,
But lavishly, and smart.
For, here deer that proudly bound,
Defying speed of horse, or hound,
And yielding only to the win
OF man, his cunning and his skill,
His treachery and art.
The feathered tribe, are not less plenty,
For ducks, geese, turkies and such gentry,
Abound in numbers, without measure,
Causing the SPORTSMAN endless pleasure,
And bOUndless wishes
The fnny tribe, here also rove,
From Lake To Bayou, through your grove,
In shoals Of trout, OF perch, OF bass,
VI gasPergoo, which do surpasS,
All other fishes.
Here Natures vineyard also twines,
In clustering folds, and mammoth vines,
'Round forest Oak, and forest shrub,
'Round forest Gum and forest grub,
LuxurianIly grand.
Nor is she sparing with her fruits,
OF other kind, which ever suits
The sight, the fancy, and the taste,
PTofusely furnished e'en to waste,
BY lavish hand.
It's the fashion here, to name our places,
Which called; we know like neig hbors face.
How ODDS the fashion can't tell,
Yet still the plan works very we'll
1t we've place TO call.
I've con'd the Indian language over
TO find word your place 10 cover,
But ALPS in Yain.-We'lI name il after
Your first old place: which is much softer,
SpOrtsman's Hall.
Dear Hal, farewell! may you be still
From debts, and duns, and every liz,
From cares, and grunis, and sorrows free,
Or other curses that may be
Entirely estranged.
May B.iseoe Bills, State Legislation,
Or other hoaxes Of the Nation,
Ne'r balk the rest OF gentle slumbers,
But snore it out in even numbers,
Nor be they ere deranged.
Your atfectionate friend,
IsSAQUENA.