Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-23
ny JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Meanwhile, South's swine increasing fast,
Ills farm became too small at last,
So, having thought the matter over,
And feeling bound to live in clover,
And never pay the %cloycr's worth,
lie said one day to brother North:
'0ur families are both increasing,
And, though we labor without ceasing,
Our produce soon will be too scant
To keep our children out of want;
They who wish fortune to be lasting,
Must be both prudent and fOrecasting
We soon shall need more land n lot
| know, that cheaply can be bot;
You lend the cash, I'll buy the acres,
And we'll be equally partakers.".
Poor North, whose Anglo-Saxon blood
Gave him a hankering after mud,
Wavercd Il moment then consented,
And, when the cash was paid, repented.
To make the new land worth a pin,
Thought he, it must he all fenced in,
For, if South's swine once get the run ont,
No kind of farming can be done ont;
If that don't suit the other side,
IT'S best We instantly divide.
But somehow South could ne'er incline
This way or that to run the line,
And always found some new pretence
'Gainst settling the division fence;
At last he said -
For peace's sake,
Liberal concessions | will make
Though l believe, upon my soul,
I've a Just title to the whole,
I'll make an offer, which | call
Gen'rous,-we, II have no fence at all
Then both of us, whene'er we choose,
Can take what part we want to use;
If you should chance to need it first,
Pick you the best, ILL take the worst"
Agreed !" cried North thought he, this fall
With wheat and rye I'll SOW it all;
In that way l shall get the start,
And South may whistle for his part.
So thought, so done, the field was sown,
And, winter having come and gone,
Sly North walked blithly forth to spy
The prgress of his wheat and rye;
Heavens what n sight! his brothers swine
Had asked themselves all out to dine;
Such grunting, munching, roofing, showing;
The soil seemed all alive and moving;
And for his grain, such work they made ont,
lie couldn't spy q single blade ont.
Off in n rage he rushed to South,
My wheat and rye'-grief choked his mouth
pray don't mind me J." said South, but plant
All of the new land that you want"
Eyes, but your hogs cried North
"Tbe grain;
Won't hurt hem" answered South again;
" But they destroy my grain"
"No doubt;
IT'S fortunate you've found it out;
Mifortunes teach, and only they,
You must not SOW it in their way -
"Nay, you" says North, must keep them out :
Did | create them with a snout?
Asked south demurely "as agreed
The land is open to your seed,
And would you fain prevent my pigs
From running there their harmless rigs?
God knows | view this compromise
With net the most approving eyes;
| give up my unquestioned rights
For sake of quiet days and nights,
| ofer'd then, you know It's true,
To cut the piece of land in two."
'Then cut it now" growls North.
"Abate
Your heat" says South, "'tis now too late;
| offer you the rocky corner,
o But you, of your own good the scorner,
: Refused to take it; / am sorry;
q No doubt you might have found a quarry,
Perhaps a gold mine, for aught ! know,
Containing heaps of native rhino;
7 You can't expect mo to resign
If My rights
"But where" quoth North "are miner"
" J0ur rights says t'other, "well, that's funny,
N / bought the land'-
81 paid the money"
"That," answered South, sis from the point,
re The ownership, you'll grant, is joint;
y ~ I'm sure my only hope as trust is
.. Not law so much as abstract justice,
ne Though, you remember, twas agreed
xt That 50 and so-consult the deed;
"a Objections now are out Of date,
~ They might have answered once, but Fate
is Quashes them at the point we've got TO;
OJSta principals, that my motto"
m 8, saying, South began to whistle,
Aud looked us obstinate as gristle,