The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-22
A PIECE OF EGGGEREL

y friend. not unknown 10 military fame
sends US the following as rcminiscuce Of hard
times away up Red River, about last Christmas.
We know our readers won't get their trisf1es
up about it, but will read it with grunts. OF sat
isaction:
Listen, kind friends, willie tel you in rhyme
Ofthc danger you passed through III hog kill
ing time,
For my blood and my nerves are Sc chuck full
Of grease,
That until warn others I'll see no more
peace.
And when you have heard others you'll know
what to expect
For in my sad s:ory III show the effect
OF living as have for three weeks or more,
On pig meat-and hcg n,eat-and SOW meat
and boar.
A friend in the country invited me out,
10 spend few d.ys, While loafipg about,
To use up lurlough; and, oil, what Ounce,
never thought Of the sequence, and accepted
at once,
Twas kind-hear!cd fellow, and I know he
meant well,
q Andne thought his kindness wou!dAerd me
20 hell;
But the temptation WAS such, and the eating so
good,
That resist it I could not, nor would not if I
could.
For though I'm no Gentle, nor ana Jew,
I'm really afraid that it never will do,
For white men to live upon hog meat alone,
And cat as they do -lcan-gristlo and
Lone;
For 10 such, Bible reader lis plain to he seen
That Moses pronounced that "tle hog is un-
clean,"
Unless twas intended us washing be,
When Christ bads the devil ';run those hogs in
~ sac sea-
Well, when dinner time came my friend said
Then at eating we went, as if running race,
And no one was conscious of doing crime
= For the bleshowed plainly that twas hog
killingtime
first eat pigs TAIL it seemed very nice,
And it was pck'G c!caa and gone in tricc,
And then MIR. Hog was turned round about,
And the next piece eat was Off of his snout
Then came the kidney, anil liver, and melt,
Until am suro quite satisfied fell
Wren still to add more TO these won!rous
sights,
They gave me dish, would you believe it, of
lights?
The spare ribs came next, indeed they were
good,
And really seemed as if intended for food,
And the sausage was splendid and favored with
I'm sure they had none in old Moses age,
Else that wise Patriarch neer would have
said,
That the Jews on such hog meat should never
be fed.
The backbone came next, and it, too, was
fnc,
And honestly state that I'm fond of the chine,
And ChinaEan never loved fat rat or mouse,
AS well as love well.picked souse;
And the feet aud the ears were thus picked
and fried,
And Id have eaten EN- with Moses at my side.
ar, sure you will think I have risks enough
taken,
Without waiting for summer to eat up the
bacon,
But Providence intended that side meats and
BEANS
Should be baked, while lis proper to boil it
with greens;
And from frittcrs and pancakes We'd ever be
barred,
Were it not that kind Providence gave US hog
lard;
And the Patrarchs surely would not have me
to damn,
To stop me from eating sugar-cured ham.
And thus I've eat hog meat, boiled, stewed and
roasted
A la mode, flicasccd, barbacucd, toasted,
Until I'm afraid, IF the Bible is true.
And reads for outsiders as we'll as the jew,
That the good saints in Heavdn will meier go
my ball.
For I've cas up hog from his snout to his tail,
And now for some punishment must preprre'
For all that I've left Of tie hog is his hair,
But whether twill bc in this world or the next,
Moses neglected 10 state in his text;
And the infiction as yet gives more pleasure
than pain:
Though It's plain to be seen that I've hog on
the brain NJ. j.. T..
Red River, Texas, Dec 25, 1864.
Ncto Orteans Crescent