The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-12-13

A Piece Of Hoggerel.

last Christmas We know our readers
won't get their 6ristles up about it, but will
read 1t with grants of satisfaction:
Listen, kind friends, while I tell YOU in
rhyme,
OF the danger You passed through in hog
For my blood and my nerves are so chuck
full Of grease,
That until I warn others I'll see no more
peace.
And when you have heard others, You'll
know what to expect,
For in my sad story I'll show the effect
Ofliving as have for three weeks or more,
On pig mcat-and hog meat-and SOW
meat-and boar.
A friend in the country invited me ont.
To spend a few days, while loafing about,
To use up furlough; and, oh, what a
Ounce
never thought of the sequence, and ac-
ccpted at once.
Twas a kind hearted fellow, and know
And ne'er throught his kindness would
send me to hell:
But the temptation was such, and the eat
ing so good,
That resist it I could not, nor would if I
could.
For though I'm no Gentle, nor am I a Jew.
Pm really afraid that it never will do,
or white men to live upon hog meat alone,
And cat as they o-fat-lean0gristle and
For to such, Bible reader, it's plain to be
seen
That Moses pronounced that s'the hog is
unclean,'
Unless twas intended as washing to be.
When Christ bade the devil 'srun those
hogs in the sea-
Well, when dinner time came my friend
said grace,
Then at eating VIC went, as if running a
race,
And no one was conscious fdoing crime
For the table showed plainly twas hog
first eat e pigs tail, it seemed very nice,
And it was pick'd clean and gone in a trice
And then MIR. Hog was turned round about
And the next piece I eat was off of his
snout;
Then came the kidney, and liver, and melt
When still to add more to these wondrous
sights,
They gave me dish, would you believe it,
oflights?
The spare ri :ame next, indeed they were
good,
And the sausage was splendid and flavor
ed with sage
| am sure they had none in old Moses age.
Else that wise Patriarch ne'er would have
said
That the Jews on such hog meat should
never be fed.
The backbone came next, and it. too. was
And I honestly state that I'm fond of the
chine,
And Chinaman never loved fat rat or
mouse,
And the feet and the ears were thus picked
and fried,
And I'd have eaten em with Moses at nv
SIDE
am sure you will think I have risks enough
Without waiting for summer to eat up the
bacon,
B, Providence intended that side meats
and beans,
Should be baked, while It's proper to boil
it with green's;
And from fritters and pancakes we'd ever
be barred,
We're it not that kind Providence gave us
hogs lard;
And the Patriarch's surely would not have
me to damn,
To stop me from eating good sugar-cared
ham.
And thus I've eat hog meat, boiled, stcwed
and roasted,
A la mode, fricaseed, barbecued, toasted
Until Tn afraid, if the Bible is true,
And reads for outsiders as we'll as the Jew,
That the good saints in Heaven will ne'cr
go my bail,
For I've eat up a hog from his snout to his
tail,
And now for some punishment must pre-
pare,
For all that I've left of the hog is his hair,
But whether twill be in this world or the
next,
Moses neglected to state in his text;
And the intliction as yet gives moro plea
sure than pain,
Though tits plain to be seen that I've hog
on the brain. NJ. J. T.
RED RIVER, TEx&s, Dec. %, 1864
Neec Orleans Crescent.
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