The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-01-07
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on me-.
As Heaven and the Fates have prospered
thee,
For lol L come, direct from Bay Of Fua-cI,,,
By miracle escaped from Mother Grundy;
Or rather BY balloon, which gave me pass,
And filled me, as you see, with "IaUghing
gas"
The color of carrot, true, my nose is,
It don't -ezhale the sweet perfume Of roses;
Ny walk is perpend-z0ntal-te you why
Balloons are good, to get fellow "highi"
Besides, when first I landed in your town,
I found myself, en- High street tumbled
down,
Like unto him-who fell 'mong thieyesGRd
Jews-es,
And none appeared to pour oil on my
bruises,
Till one called 'Groenbaoks''-agood sa-
maritan"-
Procured some ''drops" of Jinks, the pub
lican,
which proved reviving. Well, sir, cool
as ice,
Ny name is Puck, cool sir, at your (sir)-
vice.
Ifyou be pleased to peer into PUoK's mes
sage,
You may perceive what PUCK saw on his
passage;
That is, so much as he may choose to tell, 4
OF strange mishaps that unto hin befel,
You may rely on PUCK, who got view
Of.1uoh IN this, and some in that world
too.
And oft his heart was overwhelmed with
grief,
As when blind Justice oadght an honest
thief;
Again his mirtbful eye would sparkle
when
BE saw fox outwitted by hen;
But wide with wonder opened all his eyes,
And gazed with outstretched neck in blank
surprise,
At what appeared in semblance of a wO-
man,
Who seemed with life and youth and
beauty bloonuat,'
Except some load invisible that bent her,
And bore her down and much did cireum-
vent her;
While men profane made light of her Ill
luck,
I cried aloud, styou have friend in PUCK -
And dropped my card right on the lady's
crown,
On which this cure for cramps was written
down:
Take mustard more or less-a draehn of
Twill make you straight and sound as any
drum"
My craft colliding with flock of crows,
The BLACKLIST one alighted on my nose,
And crying "oa,O," more crowded in my
car;
Ny vessel thus was stopped by this croO-
bar.
But millions coming on with wondrous
force,
Swept all before them in a Southern
course,
So PUCK, without a weapon save his dag
ger,
Reached Georgia and became a ''carpet
baggerP'
Twas lection day, and in backwOOds
town,
Balloon and Puck and crows and all came
down,
Which did surprise the native population, r
But Puck was equal to "the sit-uation,,"
Displayed banner labeled ''Freedmen's
Bureau"
And found himself Of BuncOmbeville the
hero. .
Said I, "My name is PUUK, of Buckeye
State" ]
Said one of them, "Air you candidate?"
I bowed my ascent, and from thence arose
The cry-"Huzza for Puck, but blast the
orOwsr'
An elAn troop next took my craft in tow,
And quick as thought city swarmed be-
low, II
I changed my sign to 'Just arrived from /
Cork" IL
And lit in front of Tammany, New York. !
An Emerald Islander cried; "Och, be ja-
pers, Ii
"Hers, mons, yer matra1-Satan votin pa
pers, Ia
"And here's yer saymOre ticket bound to
win h
aTak sar, and ttry til git al av thin in!"
I nothing said, and looked as green as I
Erin,
I took the papers out ofsight and hearin'; '
In various Ku-Klux wards PUCK voted
once, I
Each time for Grant and oOlfax ;-such I
duncey I
Concluding next to Washington I'd go,
I borrowed Bennett's yacht, that is MT :
slow,
In just five minutes and two seconds more, =
I rang the bell beside the White House :
doorl
"a. - himself responded to the call,
'cwalk in, said hei said I, "thanks, not :
at all,
'I'm just from York, with tidingg of the 1 I
vote :
at goes for GRANT, thought you'd like
to know IT,"
"For Granti the deuce l-Heml ahI-must Z
see to it,
''Why d-n such voting, sir, TH veto It ~ A
some. kilograms came strag-
glingin,
All tending to increase "a. J. J.'s'' chagrin- 2
Till this from ''Nasby," gave him great n
delight;
''The Ko7ysers and Kentsscb air gOts rite!''
made my bow and turned to go at
length, #
When johnson caught my hand with all
his strength.
i'Tow PUCK, +" said he, ''you 'refast''--'and r
you are tight"
Said I, (which is about as bad a plight" u
uI mean YOU are fest-to sail upon the