The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-21
SEPTEMBER 81, 1871.
POETRY.
JOHNNY RICH.
BY WILL M. CARLETON.

POkO the IRE a llGJIe, Ou
This is somethin, of furry, mother. some
thin of a-whew
er Goodness gracious, how it pours 81
How it beats agin the doors - ~.
You will have hard one, Jimmy, when you
90 to do the chores
Do not overfeed the gray;
H.r- Give plenty tolthc bay .@. had
And be careful with your lantern when you
go among the hay. r..iy7
See the horses have q bed e.
When you've got 'em fairly fed;
Feed the cows that's in the stable, and the
sheep that's in the shed.
Give the spotted cow some meal
Where the brindle cannot steal;
For she's greedy IS porker, and as slippery
as an eel
..# Hang your lantern by the ring,
On nail or on q string
For the Durham calf will hunt it, if there's S
any such thing;
He's handsome one to see,
And knowin' one is he:
[ stopped over t'other 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 be ST.
lent with your toys.
Stop that barkin', now, you whelp,
Or I'll kick you till you yelp! NA~
Yes, hear it; 'tis somebody that is CALM
out lOr nel p. = -.......-. .t ....# nE.s-
Get the lantern, Jim and Tom $50
Mother. keep the babies calm, @
And We'll follow up that halloa, and Well
see where it is from.
IT'S hairy sort of night t."
For man TO face and fight; -
And the wind is blowin'-Hang it, Jimmy,
4~- bring another light ., vice
ae #vE *o# x
All twas you, then, johnny Rich.
Yelling out at such pitch,
For decent man to help you, while you fell
into the ditch;
o- 'Tisn't quite the thing to say,
But we ought to've let you lay.
While your drunken carcass died a-drinkin'
# water any way. ell va aHa
#H. $3.50 And to see you on my floor. 54lare5
5 And to hear the way you snore,
NOW we've lugsed you under shelter, and the
danger all is DER;
And you lie there, quite resigned,
Whisky deaf, and whisky blind, oa
And it will not hurt your feelin's, so I guess
:t I'll free my mind. los
Do you mind you thievin' Ounce
L- How you robbed my orchard once.
Takin' all the biggest apples, leAvin' all the
nttlest runts
Do you mind my melon patch
How you gobbled the whole batch,
Stacked the vines, and sliced 'the greenest
melons, just to raise the scratch a
Do you think, you drunken wac,
1t was any thing to brag, aa#
10 be cOrnered IN my hen roost, with two
pullets in bag
You are used to dirty dens
You have often slept in pens
I've mind to to take you out there now, an(
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 i
on a tree :?
How you hung it up you cells,
Straight and Steady, by the wheels
I've a mind to take you out there now, anC
-. hang you by your heels!
How, the Fourth of last July,
When you got little high,
You went back to Wilson's counter when Vol
thought he wasn't nigh?
How he heard some specie chink
And was on you ia wink,
And you promised if he'd hush it that vol
never more would drink.
,. Do you mind our temperance halli
How you're always sure to call,
And recount your reformation with the big
gest speech of all?
81 How you talk, and how you sing,
That the pledge is just the thing
How you sign it every winter, and then smasl
it every spring
f. Do you mind how Jennie Green
Was as happy as a queen
When you walked with her on Sunday, look
ing sober, straight and clean?
How she cried out half her sight.
When you staggered by, next night,
Twice as dirty as q serpent and a hundre
times as tight?
How our hearts with pleasure warme
When your mother, though it stormed
Run up here one day to tell us that YOU trul
i. had reformed? Vt
How that very selfsame day. ~
. When upon her homeWard Way.
She run on you, where you'd hidden. fu]
three quarts DER the bay?
Oh, you little whisky.keg
Oh, you horrid little egg
Yea are goin' to destruction with your swift
est foot and leg 90
I've mind to 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,
somethn' somewhere in you always lets yo1
get another try;
SO, for all that haYe said,
I'll not douse you but, instead.
will strip you, will rub you, will put vol
into bed IL i ..4 -.
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BY CALEB DUNN: t,l
What if gloom be all around!
WnaC II Ills and wrongs confound
Ii you have true mans heart. Es
LII you scorn to cheat or lie. g5rss
HYou act o noble part,
Joy shall bless you by and bv
By and by.
Never m 4aid e though men should sheer
Face the world with hra uoef noo;,, =. ~.