The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-25
Johnny Rich.
WILL. NJ. CARLETON.

Ear its getting rather dim,
And with such storm howlin', twill not do TO
Anu wi use the glim.
Hustle down the curtains, Lu;
Poke the fire little, Su; -,
This is somethln Oh Hurry, mother so"ethih
ofa-whewi
Goodness gracious. how it pours
How il beats ag Fin the doors
Yoa will have hard one. Jimmy, when you go
to do the choresl
Give plenty to the bay;
And be careful with the lantern when you 20
among the hay.
See the horses have a bed
When you We got em fairly ted
Feed the COWS that's in the stable and the sheep
Give the spotted COW some meal,
Where the brindle can not steal:
For she's greedy as porker. and as slipp'ry as an
eel.
Hang your lantern by the ring.
On "A nail or on a string;
For the Durham calf III bunt il, if there's any
He's handsome one to see.
And a KNOWN one is he:
stopped oyer t'other morning, and he up and
went for me!
Rover thinks he hears noisel
just keep still minute boys;
Nellie, hold your tongue second. and be silent
Stop that barkin', now, you whelp,
Or I'll kick you till you yelp
Ies, hear II; tbs somebody that's calm out Tor
help.
Get the lantern, Jim and Tom;
Mother, keep the babies calm,
And Wen follow up that halloa, and Wen see
where it is from.
lis hairy sort of night
For man to face and fight;
And the wind is BLOWN. Hang it, Jimmy,
bring; another light
Ali twas you, then Johnny Rich,
Yelling out at such a pitch.
For decent man to help you, while you fell into
'Tisn't quite the thing to say,
But we ought tove let you lay,
While your drunken carcass died a-drinkin wa
ter any way.
And to see you on my floor,
And to hear the way you snore,
Now we've lugged you under shelter and the
danger all is DER;
And you lie there, quite resigned
Whisky deaf. and whisky blind,
And it will not hurt your teelin's so guess I'll
free my mind.
Do you mind; you thievn' Ounce,
How you robbed my orchard once,
Takin all the biggest apples. leavin all the lit
tlest runts?
Do you mind my melon patch
How you gobbled the whole batch,
Stack ed the vines. and sliced the greenest melons,
just TO raise the scratch
Do you think, you drunken wag,
1t was any thing to brag,
To be cornered in my hen-roos with two pullets
in bagY
You are used to dirty dens?
You have often slept in pens;
I've mind to take you out there now, and roost
you with the hens
Do you call to mind with me
How, one night, you and your three
TOOK my wagon all to pieces for to hang 1t on
How you hung it up. you cells.
Straight and steady, by the wheels
a a mo- IA ~
you by your heels!
How, the Fourth oflast July,
When you got little high,
You went back to Wilson's counter when you
thought he wasn't nigh
How he heard some specie chink,
And was on you in wink,
And you promised if he'd hush it that you never
more would drink?
Do you mind our temperance hall?
How you're always sure to call,
And recount your reformation with the biggest
speech of all
How you talk and how you sing,
That the pledge is just the thing
How you sign it every winter, and then smash it
every spring?
Do you mind how Jennie Green
Was as happy as queen
When you walk ed with her on Sunday, looking
sober, straight and clean?
How she cried out half her sight,
When you staggered by. next night,
Twice as dirty as serpent and hundred times
dS IlgHI!
How our hearts with pleasure warmed
When your mother though il stormed,
Run up here one day to tell us that you truly had
reformed?
How that very lf-same day.
When upon her homeward way
She run on you, where you'd hidden, full three
quarters Ger the bay?
Oh. you little whsky-kegl
Oh, you hOrrid little egg!
You're goin' to destruction with your swiftest
foot and leg!
I've amnd 20 take you out
Underneath the water-spout.
just to rinse you up little, so you'll know what
you're about
But you've got handsome eye,
And, although can't tell why,
Somethin somewhere in you always lets you get
another try:
So. for all that / have said,
I'll not douse you ; but, instead,
l will strip you, / will rub YOU will put you
into bed! -HUper's Weekly