Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-24
JOHNNY RICH.
BY WILL N. CARLETON.

BY WILL NJ. CARLETON.
Raise the light little, jim.
For it's getting rather dim,
And with such storm a-howlin, twin not do 10
dOuse the glim.
Hustle down the curtains, Lu;
poke the FIRE a little Sn
This is something Of furry, mother, something of
a-yhew
Goodness gracious, how it pours
How II beats ag'in the doors
You win have hard one, Jimmy, when you go to
do the chores
DO not overfeed the gray;
Give plenty TO the bay
And be careful with your lantern when you go
among the hay.
See the horses have a bed
When you get em fairly fed
Feed the COVE that's IN the stable, and the sheep
thai'p in the shed ;
GIVE the spotted COW some meal,
Where the brindle cannot steal
For shes greedy q porker, and as sbppry AZ an
Hang your lantern by the ring,
On a nail or string
For the Durham calf n bunt it, if there's any such
He's handsome one to see,
And a known one Is ne
stopped over t'uther morning, and he up and went
for me !
Rover thinks he hears a noise
Just keep still a minute, boys;
Nellie hold your tongue second, and DC silent With
stop that barkin' now you whelp,
Or I'll kick you tn you yep
Yee, hear it 'tis somebody that's lin out for
hclp.
Get the lantern, Jim and Tom
Mother, keep the babies calm,
And wen follow up that holloa, aud se1l gee whore
"rs hairy sort Of night
For 30 face ana fght
And the wind IL bloWiu'-Hang it, Jimmy, bring an
other hight!
All twas you, then, Johnny Rich,
Yelling out at such pitch,
For decent to help you, while you fell into the
rrlsn' quite the thing to say,
But ought % let you lay,
While your drunken carcass died drinkn water
anyway.
And to see you on my door,
And TO hear ths way yon snore,
Now we've logged You under shelter, and the dan
And You lie thcro, quite resigned,
whisky deaf aud WHISKY blind
And ii viii not hurt your ieclins, 80 ! guess III
free my mind.
Do you mind you heyn' Ounce.
How you robbed my orchard once
Takin all the biggest apples, leaving oil the little
DO you mind my melon-patch--
How you RobbIod the whole batch,
Stacked tho vines, and sliced the greeuoet melons,
just 10 raiEe the scratch
Do yen think, you drunken wag
1t was anything to brng,
To bo corucrcd In my hon-roon with two pullets in
bag
You are used to dirty dcns,
You have often slept in pens,
I've mind 10 take you uut there now, and roost
you with the hens
Do sou call TO mind with
How night, and your three
Took my wagon ali to pieces for 10 hang II treeT
How you hung 1t up, you GELS,
Straight and steady by the wheels,
I've amind to take you out there now, and hang You
10y your Loels
How the Fourth Of last July,
when you got little high,
You went back to Wilson's counter, when you thot
he WASH nigh
How he heard tho specie chink,
And war Ou you In a wink,
And you promised II he'd huHh that you novermore
would drink 2
DO you mind our temperance hall
How you're always sure To call,
And recount your reformation with the bisast
speech of all
How you talk, aud how you sing,
That thr pledge IL Just the thing
How you sign It every winter, and then smash 1t
every spring
DO you mind how Jenny Green
Was as happy queen
When you walked with her on sunday looking sober,
How She cried out half her sight.
When you staggered by, next night,
Twice "a dirty Ak serpent, and hundred times AZ
tight
How our hearts with pleasure warmed
Whom your mother through il stormed
Run up here ono day 10 tell ~, that you truly had
reformed ?
How that very sclf-same day,
when on her humcward way,
She run on YOU where you'd hidden full three
quarters DER the bay?
oh, you little whsky-keg
oh, you horrid little ogg
Nonru goin' 10 destruction with your swiittet foot
and leg
I've mind 30 take you ont
Underneath the wstyr-spout
Just 10 rinse you upa httlc so youu know what
you're about
Hut you've got handsome eve,
And, although can't tell why,
Somethu somewhere IN YOU always let's you get
another try,
SO, for all thai have said
III not duuso YOU but, Instead,
Will strip YOU, viii rub you, l will put you into
ued
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PIT TO THEIR TRIMPS.
Two young men sat on the piazza of