Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-01-29
[. BROWNVILLE, NIsAIAHA COUNTY,, NJ e. ),
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lWntten forthe Nebraska Advertiser.
GUsTAVUs
"A PARODY ON sGENEVRA."
BY rom TURN1P

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IL ever you should ecnle to Georgetown,
stopat grog-shep, ne az the .'ClrOssing Roads,
DweItin, for years, by one named Joseph Carroll.
It's smelling rum barrels, whisky, wins, and gin,
AllhIled AchoclK-Guil' s '.suthn strong to take
Should not ,ietain you; but before you go,
Enter the house forget it not, I pray you
And look awhile upon the 'ifxins" there.
First see a barre, mot in earliest youth,
But first Of its illustrious family;
Done by some cooper: but BY whom 4 care NOT
BE, who observes it, ere he passes On,
SRigs down his hII, and, comes and comes again,
Thatit may eget him down when far away.
Itlays inclining downward, as to tap,
It's fosset downward, and its bung-hole up,
Asthough it said, @conie drink its edges round
Broidsred with fies, and bound from end to end,
A hickory hoop round every oakcn staye
s And on its top, reddet than rubicund
But then its iiraughts
So spatklieg, yet 50 hot, so fnIl of fun,
Theoverfowings Of some poisoning 4stilI;9
Ithaurts men YET, though weeks and month flow on,
Like some wild phaniasml
Alone itlays
Beside the Whitfield counter; its companion,
A nlaSauloth cheese half eaten by the worms,
But sim carved from BY Joseph Of the shop,
With anog' ard sicobbler'' from the cask below;
A AChpese that como from sfFenners' and contained
The milk and cream saved from a dozen COWS
That, by the way, it may be true or false
But do n'tforget the barrel; and you will not,
When you have heard the tale they told Of there,
Therf was a. fine young man his name Gllstavus,
The j5y, the pride Of an indulgent father;
Whoi in his ninsteen'Ih year became a .ssOt,
Marrying the filthy whisky there
His foOtstOOl former years, but now hislOTe.
Just as he looks there in his 'iIshOtOgaph,9
He was all genhenessy all gayety,
HIS manliness the theme of every tongue.
But now the day was come, the day, hehour;
Now winlsing, lyrinning for the hundredth time,
Old Joseph, that viIe demon, preached indulgence
And "a 81, litl'f m yoalh he sls
ii silss, vi Ek % llpslara
Theu al s. antn, l;usssvlla vas nile ah.s
Bat keTs alasl wssEoslsd id JosspA slied,
AThis gives us all addition to our mifth,p
And hiled his glass to all; buthis hand shook,
And soonfrom abriets' to hbrick' the "tightness'
tspread.
Gustavus, bnt lhas hour, left his 'sYeet-heart,"
Laughing and Ioelih back, and smiling still,
Her sweetest hiss inprinted on his lips,
But now, alas here he was to be found;
And from thatherF, truth might well be guessed
Hsgrew a sot.
Weary Of Ter life,
His sweetheart went to Cenh.e, and by Sparkling
; Sealed it safe up, in marriage with ssnothcr.
6Sustavus drank; and oft might you have seen
The Young srsze wandering in quest Of something
/. Something he well could find vhea blessed wit
+ & [@dimes;;'1'
{ when all was gone his purse remained awhile,
Silent and tenantlcEs; to ;'cas1 stranger.
Full fifteen years we're passed. ana Gust loI gos0el
When on a rainy night, niShtof gloom,
Mid the mud and filth Of asdeep gutter, there
A drunken man was noticed, and twas said,
By.one as gay as onceivas fair Gustavus,
aWhy not remove him from this horrid plaee3
Twas done as soon as said, bat when thelight
Of the street lamp revealed, behold ! q coyPsss
With here and there rag, 8 littering shred,
A scant apparel for 50 SAD right,
All else had vanished save a seedy coat
End torn part Of what was once hat
SsiAl markedther name, the nfme Of hsH',
eGstaynss
There then had 10 found grave,
Around the barrel he stiII eragged himself
rFebu,irr with oaths. tie vilest Of the vile,
when tie monster. Death, thatIay secreted there,
Silencea his tongue foreverl
n Wesr ca Ai.LEsroN, d.. Jan. 1st, 1857.