Butte record., 1856-06-21
Of the line of Mah-sun- dic-sun;
But he led him up and northward,
To the prairie fields of Kansas.

But he led him up and northward,
To the prairie fields of Kansas.
Whereat his mother, Liberty, flew
in a rage, and set out from Washing
ton for Gotham, determined to give
him particular jesse" Missing HIM
at bis brown stone mansion, she Won
dered where the young rip had gone
TOTO Burton's or the Bowery, to
Wallack's OF Niblo's, to see the Com
mon Council, the Free Lovers, the
the Live Oak Clubs, or the proceed
lngs of the Dark Lanterns. She
knocked at the door of the Dark Ian
terms, but they wouldn't let her in
She found him at last, listening to Ra-
chel:
Making believe he understood her.
Yunga Merrikah discovered his moth
er, without hoops, or silks or laces, and
lacking all the elegancies of fashion
able wardrobe, and so he cut her dead
as blazes.
Liberty saw through the milestone,
And retreating to the sidewalk she
upbraided her son, bade goodbye to
Yengah land, twistad off the head of
tha Yengah Eagle, and taking a ferry
for Jersey, left the Yerg gah land forev-
er. From that day Yunga- Merrikah
run headlong to ruin-became a regu-
lar swell, preparatory to looming out
at the little end of the horn" And
North and South met on the battle
field Of Kansas, and fought till both
were used up, like the cats of KiIken-
ny, and the land was all deserted,
Cufoe, when the fight was ended,
Took possession of the country,
And himself the King elected.
And, remembering his wrongs, where
ever he found White man, he put his
thumb on him:
Male him sweat and slave and labor,
As old Cuffee did before him.
Of course the country went to wreck
and ruin, until at length Yunga- Mer
rlkah, while excavating amid the ruins
Of Manhattan, diicovered something
huge and round and shining, and while
tugglng to get it, a
Monstrous mass Of metal
Toppled over, crushed him, smashed him,
And it was his fathers idol,
Was old Plnrihustah-s ;1ol
1t was the Almighty d'ilar.
that smashed Yunga-1I erikah. Then
Cudee came along and kicked up a
ready strung banjo from the former
site Of Christy's," and he gazed upon
the banjo and upon the dollar, and
wondered how he could spend the lat
ter:
Echo answered Gin and Sugar
SO he FASTENED down to Tammany.
sure TO find liquor there if any had
survived the lapse of ages, but he could
only
Fitd mighty smell of whisky
Then setting the dollar up edgewise,
and gazing upon its lovely frontispiece,
the image of liberty, he took the tune
full banjo,
And extemporized his death-song,
To the air of Yankee Doodle,
Sang his sad and cruel death song,
Like the Indians that you read of
In the song o. Hiawatha.
Whereupon he died, with the banjo
in bis fingers, his feet stuck through
coal-hole, his nose among the cinders,
ard his mouth half full Of ashes.
THE CLOSING.
In the land Of the Hereafter,
When the Master Of Life shall seek US,
He shall only find its symbol,
Only the Almighty Dollar,
The Almighty Yankee Dollar,
Our sole delegate to Heaven,
Then shall represent our nation,
In that glorious good time coming,
In the land of the Hereafter.
If any reader of "Pluribustah" gets
through the volume without laughing
his sides sore over the text and the IL
lustrations-which are gredt-we are
a poor judge of human nature.-N.Y.
Ere. Mirror.
rsS In neighboring town young