New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-07
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED. STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
FOR the Republicans

For the hepuDncan8
The following is from the pen of on
friend from Georgia, who lectured her
recently as a humorist. We hardly agre
with him that
THIS liz POETRY,
But What ca Name the Hunk Don't No.
aThe winds blu and the ranes desendd"
& the branchez all riz az the waters fell;
The son shoned brite, the wether got hot
s. the sno on the mountanes meltd.
The flud of descendin the meltin sno,
With o rizen branch, all runnin in the liver
Skeered EN- all for fear the banks 'twould oerfio
& wash away thare farmes, perhaps the city tn.
All waz thnkin strongly, but nun thot tn strong
Sum proffesyed, and utherz suggested.
N. JEFF sed he waz rite 4 all utherz ware rong,
With thare all wantin this, and nun wantin that.
Tha all forgot that the most komon want
liz the want of kommon sense; and so
All things went undun. But the water.
In its uzual wa didont forget tn flo.
On the waters foed and still the river riz
All the editorz praid and the publick hoped,
And all scanning TO be in a perfect quiz
But the thing most neadful not dun at last.
A sturdy old hooper saw the bank reddy tn brake
X tride tn pach the charter with big iatbote;
But long cum waiver & went the stake,
& the bote waid anker as the hooper waid feat -
The river rolled up az t he water rolled down,
& unlike luther berglers brakin intu banks,
The waters broke out run Bonet Care town.
With its koops, hooper shops, barrels & all.
When the bank Civ wa & the kreeyace turned
loose
The Father of Waters, without mother or child,
Leeped over the hank at the opened sloose,
now your bonnit is gone, with all your care
When the natives herd the CRATE bank waz brok
intu,
& the unliauidated clames was cumin so fast
Tina begin tn move THAR stok and bust up bizness;
Zach one tryin tn bee furst, nun tryen tn be last.
The unperehed waters with such rush did cum
1t dident take long tn make a lake on dry Land;
Sweapin, kuvern, farmes, fenses, houses & all,
Like it did the old koopers hatbote on the strand.
The nuzepaper edtorz air all in mournn,
The M Orleanzeonans air all syin,f
And the engineers all puzzled how to fix it;
But the old hooper at his loss IL a cryin.
A
sa, the only tn stop the kreevace,
Take kork stopper, 60 to the he'd of the river,
Without preliminara ixen preefase.
Serch wei, hunt each spring til found, and then
Kork up each spring SO tite that the water kant
run.
n. B. But look out don't break inter the Spring
Branch Bank,
Or you viii get sank and the thing will be undun.
his
JULES X SCROGGIES.
mark
P. S. If the Father of Waters IL the
Misciscippy river, hooze the Mother
That's what want tn no. az I'm trien to
lern aul the Naturel Histry kan. Us.
*Thare IL no skeersity of names suggested for mi
POETRY, SIGH Miseiseippy River Bank. but marry
Bank for me that's that eazy broke inter- and
Kreevace, but never Guild write poitry latin
names; and Bonnit Care, ct seterah &c; but don't
bleaye in namein it any thing, unles Guild sea a
pint tn it.
fYou sea had tn tel ~ tn git the thing tn
jingle. Tha air not SYM but glad it broke
where it did. Us
May A, 1871.