The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-12-06
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81 JAMES RUSSELL tovrIL.

On t'other hand, his brother South,
Lived very much from hand to mouth
Played gentleman, nursed dainty hands,
Borrowed North s money on his lands,
And culled his morals aud his graces,
From cock-pits, BARRON, fights and races
His sole worked in the farming line
Was keeping droves of long-legged swine,
Which brought great bothers and expenses
To North in looking after fences,
And, when they happened to break through,
Cost him both time and temper too.
For South insisted it was plain,
He ought TO drive them home again,
And North consented to the work
Because he loved to buy cheap pork.
Meanwhile, South's swine increasing fast,
His farm became too small at last,
So, having thought the matter over,
And feeling bound to live in clover,
And never pay the clover's worth,
He said one day to brother North:
"Our 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 lot
know, that chesply can be bot;
You lend the cash, I'll buy the acres,
And Wen be equally partakers."
Poor North, whose Anglo-Saxon blood
Gave him hankering after mud,
Wavered moment, then consented,
And, when the cash was paid, repented.
To make the new land worth pin,
Thought he, it must be all fenced in,
For, if South's swine once get the run ont,
No kind of farming can be done ont;
If tiat 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 pre- ence
'Gainst settling the division fence;
At last he said:
For peaee's sake,
Liberal concessions will make;
Though believe, upon my soul,
I've a just title to the whole,
I'll make an offer, which call
Gen'rous, Swell have no fence at all;
Then both of US, WIENER we choose,
Can take what part we want to use;
If you should chance to need it first,
Pick you the best. I'll take the worst"
"Agreedw cried North thought he this fall
With wheat and rye I'll SOW it all i;
In that way shall getthe 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 progress of his wheat and rye;
Heavens! what sight, his broiher's 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
He couldn't spy single blade ont.
Off in rage he rushed to South,
" My wheat and rye"-grief choked his mouth
" Pray don't mind me, y said South, "a but plan
All of the new land that you want
Yes, but your hogs" cried North;
"The grain;
Won't hurt Them" answered South again
" But they destroy my grain"
IT'S fortunate you've found it out;
Misfortunes teach, and only they,
You must not SOW it in their way
may, you," says North, "must keep then
OUT
+" Ola i create Incnl WIN q SDOut
Asked South, demurely Z" as agreed,
The land is open TO your seed
And would you fain prevent my pigs
From running there their harmless rigs I?
God knows view this compromise
With not the most approving eyes;
give up my unquestioned rights,
For sake of quiet days and nights;
offer'd then, you know lis true,
To cut the piece of land in two"
"Thcn cut it now" growled North.
"Abate
Your heat" says South, &c It's now too late
offer you the rocky corner,
But you, of your own good the scorner,
Refused to take it; ! am sorry;
No doubt you might have found a quarry,
Perhaps gold mine, for ought know.
Containing heaps of native rhino;
You can't expect me to resign.
My rights
but where" quoth North, " are miner
" Your rights says tOther, swell, that
funny,
bought the land
"Ipaid the money"
THAT" answered South, +" is from the point
The ownership. you'll grant, sjoint;
Pm sure my only hope as trust is
Not law so much as abstract justice
Though, you remember, twas agreed
That so and so-consult the deed;
Objections now are out of date,
They might have answered once, but Fate
Quashes them at the point we've got to;
Obsta principiis, that's my motto
So saying, South began TO whistle,
And looked as obstinate as gristle,
While North went homeward, each brown paw
Clenched like knot Of natural law
And all the while in either ear,