Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-30
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. tMessrs. Editors: Some few years since. was
S6journing with the dear old Laird, in that an
cient and hoSpita5le mansion known to all cas-
tern Virginia US Eyre Hall, - wnsn. 7 CHANGED
upon volume Of the Pen1syloal1i4 Md1asine,
published at Phifadelphia in 1875, now long
escaped from Remembrance From 1t extract
ed the following humorous verses, the spirit Of
which is in striking contrast with the ideaS of
the nineteentti century, when bigotry aud super
stiti6nsare fast passing from Chrfstendom. 2
Thinking that the happy fate of being gather
ed oRPortuHeky unto the land OF the Hereafter
Is not properly represented by the many, and
that the moral Of the poem may commend 1t to
your readers, Tsend it y0u' with the hope that
it may induce some to pliilOsophic reflection.
~ .. 80 y j. a. b.
An unbelieYing Jew one day 7ai s5tii
Was skating DER the icy way = .aiit't
Which, being brittle, LET him in iaG
Just deep enough to catch his chin, 9a
And in that wofhl plight he hung, -F9
With only power to move his tongue
A brother skater near athand,
Papist born in foreign land, = iss ~
With hasty strokes directly flew y i
To save poor Mordeeai the jew;
"Bnt first, quothi he, II must enjoin sal
THAT you Tenounce your faith for mine;
"Fhere'sTo entreaties else SwiIl.do, &
5. il''sFis heresy to. help jew sG
"Forswear mine fait-no! Cot forbidl
"Dat would be ferry base, indeed
"Come, never mind such tings as deesc,
'Tink, tink, how ferry hard it freeze,
~ More ootyonSdo, more coot you be,
Vet signifies your fait to me,
"Gome tink, agen how cold and vet,
{ ''And help. me out vun little bet.
BY holy massl It's bard own,
~ TO see man both hang and drown,
yet can't relieve him from his plight
Because he is an Israclite;
"The church refuses all assistance
I'D Beyond certain pale and distance,
"Soall the service can lend Dab
Ills praying for your soul, my friend."-9
"Pray for mine soul! ha! ha! you make me
''You peter help me-out py,halG
.iS Mine soul | farrant villstake care,
TO pray for her nown SELF mine tear;
$50 tinka little now for me,
3a lis am in de hole, not she.'','-- go
The Church forbids it, friend, and saith,
That 1 all shall die who have no faith. ,
"Yell, if must peleve, must,
"But help me out yum little first"
'No, not an inch without amen
''That seals the whole - 81
''Vell, hear me den; 7aa
81 here renouncc, for coot and all, ~
"De race of Jews, both great and small,
tbs de wrist trade peneath de sun;
"0r vurst religion, OATS all vun.
p SO "Dey cheat aud get DER liSinfpyit,T
And lie andrswear de lie is right,
'I'll CO to mass as soon as ever
81 get to toder side the river;
$50 help me out now, Christian friend,
dat Irpay do as intend"
Perhaps you do intend to cheat,
If once you get upon your feet" tsst
No, no; do intend to be
ga Ghristiau-smch avun as dee"
For, thought the jew. hc7iS MS much tsTl-,-'
"A Christian man as amisuch.
The bigot Papist, joyful hearted ~
To hear the hereto converted,
Replied to the designing Jew, tt
s,s This was happy fall foryou;
You'd better die a Christian now,
"For if you live you'll break your vow"a
f Then said no more, but in a. trice
Popped Mordecais beneath the ice.