Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-09-03
Origin Of the World.

by request.l
This world is probably as odd as any in creation.
And Of the way in which twas made, I'll give an
explanatory
Twas difficult to work at first, for il was dark as
night,
But fumbling round the workmsn found match
and struck light
This world vas then chunk Of mud, az awkward
as biscuit,
When the carpenters got out their tools and went
towork to fix it.
One ofthem knocked the corners ofand smoothed
them with his knife,
While others Tustied up the holes, as natural
life.
When this was done, another Bartholomew and
Shsnser
Bored outa monstrous hole clean through with
David's three foot augcr,
Then they obtained a cedar pole, and hacked it
full OF notches,
And drove il through the infant world and hung it
in the crotches.
Then Moses oiled the gudgeons up. and putting on
the handle,
He turned it like peppermint, while Thomas
held the candle.
1t made little fuss at first, and gave . grooming
vince,
But soon it got turning good, and has been ever
1t turned away some days more. till it was hard
and dry.
And then the carpenters went up and tinkercd a,
the sky
They filled the roof with gmlet holes to save from
burning oil,
And the noon is but swallow hole through which
the pigeons crawl.
Then David hit upon plan to move the world by
steam
For though they'd got water-wheel, they could
mt find stream.
So they bought an engine then, which weighed
about a thousand tun,
And the hole they cut through for the pipe is what
we call the sun.
Then coming down they took their spades and
scooped the lakes and bays,
They built a rain-tub in the sky, on the plan oil
Robert Farrell, &c.,
They pulled the plug and let it run day or two OF
more
Till every bay and lake was full up level to the
shore.
They made the little fishes then.s slippery and So
slim
Which Jonah thought he could gulp down. but one
Of them gulped him.
They made the blue-eyed Goldfish, and the rickerels
and pixies,
The bulihead with his ugly horns, which prick like
iron spikes.
Then they made the anim,ls that live upon the
land.
From the foolish little chip muck to those that un-
erstand.
Then they made the pretty birds, some with feath
cry wings
From the frog which croaks and jabbers, to the
nightingale that sings
They made Aies to eat the sugar, and bees to eat
the flies,
And man to catch the bivalves and make them in.
to pies.
They thosght that all was finished then, and going
round to see,
They found that woman wasn't made according to
decree.
So Adam drank pail Of milk, which made him
rather dozy
And then they came little game both cunninsl,
and coy.
A butcher took carving knife, and opening hi'
jacket
Took outs rib in half jiffy, not making any rack
They then set their wits to work, to see what the,
could make,
Aud shortly had an oven up and put 1t on to bake
They took tout and through the nose. they breath
ed the living breath
And when Adam walked and found wife, he wa
| tickled half to death.
Thus woman being made at first from out Of bon'
be-hacked,
Is just and all the reason why her notions are 8
| . cracked.
So now you've had a short account, how this worl
| was made OF clay
And what has been doing since, I'll tell som
other day.