Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-11-18
All about the praft


Draft draft draft draft
II struck like thunderbolt fore and aft,
Aud then like rats from a sinking craft,
Every ono ran and looked nbaft,
TO llud some plank or floating rait.
To take them off by gentle watt,
From the awful, horrible, dreadful Draft
For the ship Of State had struck tho rock,
ANA was sinking fast FROM the mighty shock,
Ana all must up, pull foot. and go
before the good ship went below
Draft draft draft draft
o, shades oil the pilgrim you'd have laughed
To ace them Gathering fore aud aft.
Quo Jumped and locked up his Store aud rau
Like frightened hare for the shores Of Can,
Ada, where he could find peaceful rest,
ana send Tor his clothe0 when il suited him host
Another hugged aud kissed his wife,
Aud seud within an inch of his life
le catch the steamer before she sailed,
while over and around him walled
ihat doorons word, us though demons laughed.
Draft draft draft draft
Like the cry when Egypts lirst-born died,
Rose lamentations on every side,
Bittsr ~ wormwood, the gates that watt
The groans of those who would run the draft
One would go right OIL aud enlist,
but he had twelve cOrns as big as his fist,
Aud great carbunoe on his wrist
Ihat gave bis arm II terrible twist,
Another was just us bad as dead,
Wlth nifty ulcers inside his head
Another felt bad he couldn't go,
But he WAS 80 shaky from crown to toe.
Another was sure he had no spine,
For his back crooked up like figure g;
And family doctor made him think
His lungs were spotted as black as ink
Another would certainly 90 right oil.
But he hnd horrid cOusumptive cough;
Aud, though he always worried at night,
of late he began as soon as twas light
And another, a man of thirty seven,
Fell down, when youngster about eleven.
ANA broke ten ribs as though as leather,
lie knew they never had knit together,
Another, if he took his hand and pressed
Ever 30 gently over his chest,
Felt hole aa cold as Baf6ns Bay,
And he knew his liver had dried away.
Another knew he should cave right in,
fOr MS spleen was mortified black as sin.
Ahd he trembled and shook like hallibuts I'm.
ana hc had TO wear corsets of iron and tin.
AUD another, looking as sound rs n keg,
had two glass eyes and Il wooden leg.
And another set mp frightful wall
For his head was us big as a water pail.
AUD his ears we're swelled ms thick ~ his foot
For he'd poisoned himself with ivy root.
Aud he shouldn't live a single day
III the pestilent marshes down that way.
BESIDES, he was deaf as Il tinmau's cat.
anu he couldn't smell, his nose was no fat
ANA another couldn't think of going,
ile had u fine mustache a-growing-
lie was such handsome and useful beau,
That the girls oil aald he couldn't gori
Another had purchased bran new suit
Ana he must tic up his things and seaot
For he couldn't afford substitute.
And he wouldn't enlist anu die like brute
U, ghost OF Mol Pitcher que you'd have
laughed
no hear the excuses for running the draft.
no rooms were opened and Judgment set
anu then, hall ohoked with dust and sweat.
liatless and eoatless they struggle through.
with shins and arna all black and blu A
fufilng and hauling kicking and aqnA g.. slin.
ping aud ripping
, ahoVels and broometcks how the iolks .aughel
! see the skeuaddlers run from the draft
Let 20 my leg, you filthy dog!"
You hit III knock you as dead ns n logtu
what 10 you want 30 push no for ?"
= GU stop your kiokin and pinchin' or
'lIl give you wipe right over the law I"
y ou Iuit now, shown mo OH them stones
lr l'll leave you n shirt full of broken bones u
80, dunder and blixen, mine head, mine head I" |
'Oeh. howly Virgin, I'm dead, Im dead I"
You've kilt me intirelyI' "Now stand back ~
you bite me again and IN hit you whael, ~
'Lor--don,t, dear, push 80, he STILL yOu bnrt
iOnll get my best clothes all covered with diri !"
: Old, old you 'eathen you punched my bye +,
%, dear what smell | know shall dc y
}, pickles aud mustard who wouldn't boye
laughed
% see 'em running from the coming draft
'ume, they could, would have trayelledatraight
Tut of the world and fastened tle gnte
Iud 50 they pushed, and in they went
axe Falstah'a ragged regiment
slng' boned and spawned, halt and blind
'ome with no BRAINS and some with no mind
Una some to answer the ends Of the law,
ne most elegant mon you ever saw,
'rowded the space of that fatal door.
III, utter while they tumbled out
ike soapsu'ls whisking out of epout-
iatdly moving finger, so still and deyout
'uf, once got home, they cut up their capers.
md snow with great glee their Exemption
Papers, ''4
10 more to worry, when fore and aft
he winds outside take up and waft
hat horrible bugbear, draft draft lraftf
b drumsticks and fddles know yond hava
laughed 'S
o see em SO tckled when clear Of the dat
--Se~~
Some one was telling an lriahman that fellow
al eaten ten saucers of ice cream whereupon
az shook his head.-''So you don't believe il -
filth nod, Pat answered: 81 behave in tho
rame, but not in the saucers"
Pofceman-A man employed by the corpora-
ion to sleep in the open air, {