The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-19

ana ne seemed all staring stark.
"He stole my hosses, and sold 'em tool"
Pale and shivering through and through,
''It's liel' gasped Cunnle Shark.
He skew'd one eye, and he twitch'd his mouth,
And the glass eye glared and glisten'd:
30 yesl was riz III the sunny South,
And Epraim Shark was ohristenedl"
"Whats this? The Cunnle thiefl" we cried
"Ihet man-of honor the spark
Couldn't be true! What-creation's prideP
Wal, here's my witnesses at my side"
Cried Abner; 'I charges Shark"
Then before the Cunnle could draw or speak,
The little one sprang and tript him;
While We admired at his thunderin cheek,
Slick hand aud foot he clipt him;
And he drew his leeth Zone big bowie
And pisUols) with no remark
Then tied him fast with grin O. gleel
81 call for court to sit" says he,
"In the case OF Cunnle Sharkp
It's orful how guilt unnerves cuss-
The Cunnle was clean dumfounded;
And now nolonger he'd charms for us,
Though his dern'd old teeth he ground
But confess was full O. grief
To see a man O. mark,
Respected, happy, of all the chief,
Turn out that scum of the airth, thief,
And wept tor Cunnle Shark
For moral place was Grizzly Greek,
No s,,of 70 ,,iIfe- a,,5 ,,;,i- =,
If thief was caught was slickity squeak,
And up he was sent a-kickin'.
The pieci ousest thing in the creek was HOss,
As dear as the dove to the Ark;
But man or two was no grit loss,
And life, you guess, was pitch and toss
To more than Cunnle Shark,
We fOrn'd court on the spot jest there,
With his geese around US sissin'.
Jedge and jury, and all things square
| And Testament for kissin'.
The bob'link cried from the laplock spray
And answered the meadow-lark;
The corn was yellow upon thet day,
and the mOrnin' glOries lookt bright and ga,
Round the hut O. Cunnle Shark.
Natur' is nator'l when Shark was bound,
And beyond more ruinstion.
No end o witnesses were found
Who'd been part o the deputationl
And they said they'd Gllay', long'd to speak
OF his dOin's IN the dark
only-they'd never found the cheek,
II accuse such poplar man in the creek
As the hghtin' Cunnle Shark.
"G1altyp Guilty and no mistake,
For the proofs were black as thunder,
I saw the Cunnle tremble and shake,
And his knees s-knocking under,
With voice that shook, for the Cunnle he
Had been such man o. mark,
I spoke his sentence, and it should be
"To be swung by the neck to the nearest treel
'sEuchredlD shrieked Cunnle Shark.
"Pris'ner," said I, at unnerves O man
To hev this ugly duty,
And to think how promisn' you began
A character full OF beauty,
In the ways of virtue you shot ahead,
War honour'd both light and dark;
And you've come to tsisi To be jedged, t" sale
'To be hung by the neck till you air dead"
40 LOrdl" cried Cunnle Shark.
"Yes, he stared at fust ike a sksery child,
And all his game departed;
could have dick'd him-I felt so riled
, To find him chicken-hearted,
But you see, to be stript of his hard-eern'd fam
And life at one big jark,
To find his glory all brought to shame,
and to go from life with so bad name,
Was dern'd hard times on Shark.
But when he saw his last kerd was play'd,
The Cunnle show'd his mettle;
awal, boys" 'It's mess I've made,
And this dern'd old neck must settle,
Let this yer teach ye to mind the law,
And play no tricks in the dark.
Abner Yorker, jest shake my pawl
Meow feel in my pants and give me chawl
Was the last words spoke by Shark.
He could see the men in the corn-patch nigh
And could hear the lark a-singing,
And we carried him to the wood jest by,
Where the hang birds cried a-swinging;
For Abner Yorker he found cord
On the hitchin' post in the park;
We gave him one minute to pray to the Lord
And with glass eye glarin' and cheeks scar
scored,
swishI up ran Cunnle Shark
I was raised in the land where the sun don't SO
And the men amt crook-neek squashes;
1 can see as fur as most I've met,
And know what almighty bosh is;
But I never have seen a career to break
So bright, and to end SO dark.
Pm putty considerable wide awake,
So do admire at my own mistake
In the matter of Cunnle Shark.