The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-04-07
THE SPELLING
TIE wainau's club spelling Done Into
Horrible Rhyme.

Horrible Rhymc.
orhc great match =, spelling, on lat Nondp,
night,
IN solemn mood, W, now Fropo'c 20 write
And make = record o what then bcirl
Those who were victims Of that woudryus .roll
The house was 1.-THE Athcuc1m hall
And two large classes answered 20 The call
Among the men were lIavkiu, and Candle
Pred. Kent, McKeaig, and William Mori., h,
Who run. for Mayor; Mike Hovley ond Mckee
steam, and All Comings, snd great speller
Howe;
wurIner and ,tiwell; all good men. who bow
And take their places ready f)r the row 80
The ladies bless em'--thoy wery c5mcly, all;
And some were short and some were rather tall
And all stood up to spell like little men
And prove the smirtness Of their .eX again
Rut nr,t came Stafford, All az teacher oil.
With cow bell hideous, that the .hiyers cold
Up all the backs Of all the audience cent
And turned oil gray the rel lock, Of Ercd. Kent.
"This IL A. Coming,," said A Stafford, when
a Comings lined Lang sync, and then
said "with voices loud sou people all now
sing
And make the raf,ers with the ia -onz ring. -
sarjrd struck up-rin on n l,t,'. while,
When Wood the Mayor, with many winning
smile,
Jumped in on should" when ~af. went out on
mind"
Aud ran with Ty-lyp, but got ont behind
There never was before such singing heard
Prom throat Of man or beast or screaming bird (!
a hundied men with lie, on blade. Of saws,
A hundrrl lawyer, wunsliug o'er the laws,
4 hundred women taking all together
About their nsishb,r, much, and som. ahou,
| the weather,
Were nothing to the way that audience sang,
| ana even SAD 'rj', cow bell made more music
when IL rang
lis SAID tha' nonsense now and then
! J. r'li-hcd by the best OF men,
! And We belicycit; FOR o., l.i-t the half
| OfJOy We know here h.llen la laugh
4 comm nplare, We gran, this; but us true.
A. i well know 10 ALTO YOU and YOU.
"use II her" explaining now the fact
Why ~aford ct ou, on the stage 70 MT
Tho part Of master ola .hopl Of cid
when MASTER head not much Of learning held,
Why >alori called his class OF boys and girls
Boys with short row,ers and big girls with
curl,-
While Lucy Thompson read hcrss-ay. "sprng,'
In tones that threatened -he would surely sing
picture Of the schools that used 10 be
"uitls-' u order aad from learning free.
Then the spelling began, and the words given
fast
From ono to the other were rapidly ra-t--
To this boy y word, then ono % that gal,
TIN Mi.trc-s y. Linton went down. " Cutical."
Then Havkin-, the CLERK wa. given word
peace mar like Billy never had heard,
And he passed In his checks '-on "Bsllig-
crent fell,
And Stafford he went and he 'ollcl his COW he'll
And col Mc6uig, Of the Cairo i. o..
Who knowe'h ri.hi well how to hoe hi. own
row,
Took "Ncce--iiale" mp aud dropped outans.
Ana was told that he might then 60, 20 to--l,.
cess.
Then good Mr., Stcarus int, ''Orilcc put
An extra small r, and was sent to the foot.
While Halliday, Mistress W. T.,
Got in Dapa,on' an unfortunate @,
And Mi-s Hattie Wheeler, while under "a smell.
Len out ~ "fraukincens-" the ;. and she fell
Horace WARMER NJ u. great medical man
devotec he Of the reed-blowing Pan
spelled 1t "Chpir-c-tcr' loudly and then blush
81 a. red
A. the lock- thst adorn Michael HovI.y'> good
head
"Tlyerrch" Nrs Rir,cnhou.c PEELED IT, and
she
AT down, saving softly I'm waiting for
thee -
And -he did not wait long Toy good Mr. Thrlpp
Put Az in Cslcarsous" and gave the thing up
And then Henry Caudee--Lori nlr-, the good
Re- al home when he's singing beautiful
psalnl-
Spelled it "P-lam-o-dy" boldly, and a,uk on
hi chair,
sadly, di,cou1olale, young and how fair
Aud Cnming-. speler Of metal tho best,
spelled it slowly "Littis-ous." aud ssnk down
20 rect.
"Plagiar-t' took IN her feet Mis- Mckee
And Mr. Will Winter long "Synccdoche 90
Mrs Cos, Wa, nj sure "Congerie," how to
spell,
And Ely ipelas the death was Of Mr.. sill.
well,
II was "Ayoirdupos" noored Mr., Al Sloo,
">scriesiou, 1t was laid Mrs smith low,
And William Morris by plain Gazetteer
Slaughtered he was, and walked Of on his
ear.
Mrs Candee was yeNed, and w,do not blame
sur,
For she Blamable' spelled with -uperfuou, .
"pi''en'ion' Mike howlcyi Concordance
: Slearns;
Mrs. Oberly,' ENchcguerD -hv trial one
lcarnsi-
Mr. kcnts "RDckp'ot' laid out for the night;
Mrs siillwell "Punctilio" did not spell right
And then on the floor--the contest o. uow'.-
stood Mrs John I.anSdcn and Mr. Frank Howe
The battle was long, Mrs Lansdcn stood well,
But under "Confutsble finally fell
And then Mr., Howe how modest he looksl--
NasNictorproclaimsd and was given the books.
The clock had struck ten, and this ended the
match
In which all Of the spoilers stood up to the
scratch.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
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