Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-25
NO.l9.

famous verses" said the Field Marshal an
grily.
"Your excellency," exclaimed the tfenn-
bling watchman, ''as true as / live, / never
made verse in my born days." iss227i
"Silence, knave,' roared the Marshall
"FD have you hanged for them! And If
you contradict me again, I'll cut you in
two on the spot" .+f .
The police officer respectfully observed
to the Field Marshal that there must Be
some poetical epidemic among the watch
men, for three had been brought before
him within the last quarter of an hour ac-
cused of the same ohense: s ts1l
'Gentlemen," said the Marshal to the
officers who had accompanied him, ssince
the seoundrel refuses to confess, to take
down from your remembrance, the words
of his atrocious libel. Let them be writ
ten down while you still recollect them.-S
Come, who can say thems" 5rsea7as ilf
The officer of police wrote to the dicta-
ton of the gentlemen who remembered the
whole verse between them r1L +
'on empty head Haunting feather, ~,
A long queue tied with tape and leather
Padded breast and waist so little, 'is
Make the Soldier 10 title; t s'siW GO
BY cards and dance, and dissipation,
He's sure to win Marshal's station" q
"Do You deny that, you rascal9 n cried
the Field Marshal, to the terrified watch
man-'.Do you deny that you sang those
infamous lines as / was coming out of nv
house 2" '-s- =. ~
''They may sing it who like, it was not
me-" said the watchman.
"Why did you run away, then, when
you saw me"
II did not run away"
i' "What % said the two officers who had
accompanied the Marshal -"did not run
aways Were you not out of breath when
at last we laid hold of you there by the
market Z" b., =, .....-.-.-,l
'Yes; but il was fright at being SO fe-
rociously attacked. l am trembling vet in
every limb a'.i
"Lock the obstinate dog up till the
morning." said the Marshal '.he will come
TO his senses by that timer'' With these
words the wraLhful dignitary went away.
These incidents had set the whole police
force of the city on the qai vive. @. 's.A
In the next ten minutes two more watch
men were brought to the office ON similar
charges to the others. One was accused of
singing libel under the window of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which it was
insinuated that there were no affairs to
which he was more foreign than those of
his own department. The. other had sang
some verses before the door of the Bishops
Palace, informing him that the flights of
the church, were by no means deficient in
tallow, but gave a great deal more smoke
than illumination. - .''es-'
The Prince, who had wrought the poor
watehmen all this wo, was always lucky
enough to escape, and grew bolder with
every new attempt. The affair was talk
ed of everywhere. The Minister of Police,
who was at cards with the King, was IN
formed of the insurrection among the hith-
erto peaceful watehmen, and as proof Of
it, some of the verses were given to him in
writing. The King laughed very heartily
at the doggerel verse about the miserable
police, who were always putting tlDir noses
into other peoples family affairs, but could
never smell anything aniss in their own;
and ordered the next poetical watchman
who should be taken to be brought before;
him. He broke up the card-table, for he
saw that the Minister of Police had lost
his good humor. .-r iars
To be Continued) SIS a=1a