Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-29

And our Pegasus waningy snors, that no more h,
| WIN bear US, unless we go with our story.
90 requesting what iolloweth, readers will heed,
vi our wonderful tail, we proceed to proceed
| VII
| Now the sapint he grew rather tired
| And the Capting he was all jofrei'
raugued, and so made pre- par.ation
| For another hostile demonstration.
! So, feeling for the softest place
Scoring to 'hit him IN the face
he struck him (where he 'hadn'l ouohier')
Right where he liyed'-'twixt wind and water.
IN! NOW jest as soon as the Capting done it,
he sarplnt knew she couldn't come it,
so goin' about on t'other tack,
lie rolled over on his back
And, in food Of bloody foam.
lie died-he did! in his ocean home.
Now, arter witnessin' his death,
The Captng, somewhat out % breath,
Wllh an upward spring TO the surface rose,
And Dreathed more Tree er through his nose;
When casting round his we ewes seward
lie Spied his ship, 'hull down. 10 leeward.
VIII.
The Gaping now, he nothing daunied-
Though rest. he felt, was sorely " anted-
Climbed the scale-y MONSTERS side.
And stood triumphant on bis hide.
Soon, streaming from his blood v spear.
His handker cher, it did appear,
Like pennon in the kuieh, sport,
sc deadly played at Agincourt
But sad To tell-ior so it SEEMED
The handkerchief it vainly sneamed;
The hardy crew aboard the ship
Were busy round a can of dip
And iailhless 'lookouts' fast asleep,
Deserted no signal on the deep
The Capting looked in vain again,
When night came dark ming DER the main;
And was, despairing, forced TO make
Hls 'hlyouac' upon the snake.
The blast il bowed, and the snow il showed
And awful cold it quick " growedl
Aad ere the coming of Aurora,
The storm became "a ring tailed roarer'
AT last, amid that wild commotnn,
The Gaping sluinbered on The ocean;
And, Graded ON its flaming crest,
Like an infant porpoise sunk 10 rest.
Now, how at dawn he espied,
A-lakin' his lone ocean ride,
And mstook, by some sort OF an igaoramus,
For "A seal astlide OF hip1opota mus;
And how be was rescued. and histed in,
And restored by mlgical medicine,
Composed OF sugar, aud water, and rum,
CA sovereign panacea deemed by some,)
And how he told 'em how much he'd bin thro',
And how they none OF 'em kne,c it twas true;
And how, to Get the sarpiut aboard,
They cut him in three with the Captng's swoard,
Aud how, when his marvellous length was mntal,led.
They discovered the sarpnt couldn't be hglded;
And how twas determined, BY those who see him,
That he couldn't get in to Barnums Museum,
And resolved, that the public, by way Of a faeler,'
Should look al his heart, in Mononga hela;
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And (though sariinly more'n the snake desarved)
How his vital parts were thus presarved
And how, when the pesk-y snake was dead,
The liquor 50 quickly got into his head;
Which, though an exceedingly troublesome task,
They'd bottled down in sparm oil cask,
And yet couldn't keep il from giving offence;
And how they were forced 10 chuck it thence,
(As the Gaping sorrowfully remalks)
Overheard, 10 the 'cussed' sharks;
And how, of the wonderful sarpint they tell
They couldn't bring home TO us even the smell
The darn'd thing" but the Cap,ing's story
OF how he covered himself with glory,
AkiIliu' the critter! but not boue
OF the peskl snake did they bring home;
And how some people are ready to swear
(And some such folks there always are)
That the Capting drunk, and the mate was
dreamy,
And the crew, all round, considerable steam V
In fact, all drunk! from stem stan,
Aud the sarpnt's tail was sailors yarn
And nothing morei How this Is told
BY other folks, need unfold!
But you have the tale as cheap as we,
! Who beeve that all such things might be.
| But whether or no, ii's our intent
/ To cut off this tail of the Sea Sar-pent.
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Mortal! seek to know no more;
| The tale of the Sea Sar-pent is DER,
Aud whether, as told by Sea bury,
1t was anything else but ishy lie,
And whether the Spirit-which, while it fingers
To indle this version, impelIing thy fingers
Is ardent or otherwise-hot or cold,-
Seek not to learn. Our story's told!
a GnoO NAME-AIyavS he rnorn roini4ons