Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-29
A Il LAWYER,


IS whose Reputation IL Above the
Assaults OF Malice and Envy"
Our devil surreptitiously obtained Q copy
Of last evenings Leader. and after spell
ing out the above heading. which was in
large type. found it and the article which
followed referred TO the Hon. Thomas
Wren. He became quite frantic at the
brevity Of the article, and also became
very excited indeed, because the honorable
gentleman had not done himself full
justice, and without more ado fred up the
p~oetical machine and ground out the fol-
| lowing choice morceau, which he thought
was a fit ending to the Leaders article.
The machine worked q little stif1y, as II
had not been used In some time, or it
would lave done better work. As the
machine turned it out We give it to our
readers. We are quite certain that 1t can
not be beat as q specimen OF machine
poetry, and we feel assured that the hon.
orable gentleman referred to in the Leader
will, on reading the poetry, at once send
for our devil and the machine, and keep
them both busy in grinding out fulsome
articles in praise of the +" great lawyer"
THE GREAT LEvIATHAN.
AND HOW HE TO SWALLOW EVERY
THING WITHIN REACH.
I serve an srRentiferous king, whose subjects
live across the sea
But on the Base Range who r~esides-King
is the boss for me.
1 am the greatest mining sharp that ever lived
1 wonder If as big a man will Ger be seen at
any time.
When others tread the macy dance I steal
away to ruminate
Upon the many secret things that lie within
conglomerate,
For I've ever had q leaning towards all matters
metalliferous,
And when q child was soothed to sleep with
plsythings carboniferous.
MY nurse oft gave me credit for . wonderful
precocity,
Because. when only Ave years old. I prattled
Of viscosity,
And gamboled round volcanic cones and stig-
And chartered to the little boys Of Pistanus
aeeroides.
A sagittalus obolella frequently delighted me !;
An orthonta parabells never once afirighted
me,
An omoceras was my joy. and when I grew to
mans estate.
A tilletherium fodieus my deepest woes could
dissipate.
No marvel then King Richmond chose, to have
me plead his cause. for
Propose to make old Huxley own, with science
! can blind his eye.
I know the great Eureka lode. its angles. dips,
and spurs, and all,
I've walked the drifts both night and day from
quartzite foot to hanging wall,
I've slept in the Potts Chamber. and Q very
cosy room 1t 10,
And should be yet, like other things, I venture
to assume 1t Is.
I claim for Royal Richmond now, just every
mortal thing in sight.
Quartz. copper. cinnabar and gold, and lime
stone. silver. dolomite,
For I'm g mining lawyer. and my best hold 10
For 1t I've Stunned the Bible and looked down
upon theology,
A giant with department clerks-no matter
how suits hang about,
A patent 1 can always get. I'm such a lightning
roustabout.
I pull the wires. and she comes 80 quick.
'twould make q person pale,
The job is done, the patent signed in the twin
kle Of q lambkin's tail.
When / go into tribolites. and babble of the
The jury shndder and grow pale. like phono-
lite on otoyouts.
Then gravely I discourse Of ridges aniclinal,
OF mineralized zones and slate, In language
mighty high and grand,
I watch their quivering frames with slee.
those g~asterpods silurian.
! glory in their agony. and still I pile the fury
on,
Now loaded down with thunderbolts, I'm
armed like the octopus.
The honest miner quails before my interstric-
tus agnostus.
There never was a mining law I did not know
like A b O.,
made in all the Courts are stacked
up In my memory.
Then with an ounce of law / mix tons t1mbled
of geology,
And slap it at the miner strai ght withoutpauss
or apology.
For 1 must gobble this big vein for Richmond,
alligator jawed.
Though men may mutter and declare, they
never saw u greater fraud.
Your honest miner might defy glass bombs,
and big artillery,
But watch him for Q moment when I put him
in my pillory;
The anticlinal makes him sick. he rubs his
head and mutters, when
l touch him on erosion, and soar miles above
all other men.
then 1 heap upon his brain some rubbish
geographical.
And lay him out all paralyzed, with keen shsfts
s~tratigraphical.
The great Eureka lode I can divide, subtract
and multiply,
glory in the miners grosns. his CORY sweat
and heavy sigh:
For l am the greatest mining sharp that ever
lived, and thus / hope,
kalderdash and mining slrsh, to cloud the
Albion's horoscope.