Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-05-16
E7eady-Mnde Rhymes.

The 4ppeal has taken the Virginia
Chronicle TO task for appropriating its
Tewksbury poem Without credit. 1t
says:
When a paper wrestles with a rhyme
for Massachusetts, and wins a square
back fall after a siX-hour bout, it
wants the usual recognition.
Here is the rhyme for which the
1ppea} claims credit:
:, NV hold on this d sgrace will not lose its
Grip while | am still
The Boss of BEACON Hill
And rule the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts.
This is taken from book of ready
made rhymes published for circulation
anon" the clothing dealers and patent
medicine men in the East. 1t con
tains several ready made rhymes on
| the names of each State in the
/ Union. On page 81 is one which
would suit just as well rs the one
used, provided the beginning of the
stanza is changed to refer to the oppo-
sition which the Governor met with
from the old party;
Nothing in the world will excuse its
| Throwing so much swill
| AT the Boss of Beacon Hill.
/ Who rules the Commonwealth of Massachu-
/ chusetts.
On page 6S is another:
II makes no difference who sets
The investigation mill
| Grinding at the pill
! So hard to swallow by the State of Massachu-
| sets,
This was designed for the use of
patent medicine advertisers, but
would have gone into the poem some
where near the middle with fine effect
and considerable fidelity TO the sub
| ject. The next but one on the same
| page could also have been used with
| advantage:
No matter what is done therell be now sets
of Commissioners to fill
| All the contracts let to kill
Infants in the State of Massachusetts,
This is for soothing syrup advertise
ments, but would work in very nicely,
perhaps even better than some of those
which were used. The following
would also have worked into the sense
very smoothly, but it is the only one
of that measure given, and was prob
ably omitted on that accounts
There's firm in Massachusetts,
Which says that pain will lose its
| TerIors if you ice its
Oil of pine and spruce. its
The healing balm of Massachusetts,
The rest of this page is taken up
with rhymes for ready.made clothing
and hair balsams. They are good
enough rhymes, but as there is a
vein of levlty running through them,
would not have been suitable for the
| Tewksbury poem, although it seems
almost a pity that the editor of the
appeal could not use ore which, is the
last of the rhymes the book gives on
Massachusetts,:
As silently and still as Sioux sits
On rocky little hill,
Waiting patiently to kill
And scalp an agent from the State CT Massa-
| chiouXsetts
| 1t is intended for labels on hair
restorative hotties, but an apt compsri-
| son could have been made between the
I Tewksbury people and the savage
Sioux, and it is to be regretted that it
was not run in somewhere.
However, althoughNit may seem easy
to the inexperienced to select rhymes
! from book and make a poem, it is
not so by any means. The labor of
stringing them together so they will
make sense is great, and although the
book furnishes copious supply of
| almost all allowable rhymes, their
commercial character makes it ex-
tremely difficult to adapt them to
serious subjects, and the Appeal is
certainly entitled to the credit it
claims for the ingenuity displayed in
the selection and arrangement Of the
Tewsbury poem.
A Tkird Line.
Ioao l.