The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-26

/ The same old dreams of our boyhood's days
That never come true, from the vague sensation
OF walking asleep in the worlds strange ways
i And away to the house where was bornl
And there was the selfsame clock that licked
| From the close of dusk to the burst of morn
/ When life warm hands plucked the golden corn,
/ And helped when the apples were picked
i And the China dog" on the mantel-shelf,
With the gilded collar and yellow eyes,
i Looked just as at first, when Rugged myself
i Sound asleep with the dear surprise.
And down to the swing in the locust tree,
/ And where Eek Skinner, "Old" Carr, and three
Or four such other boys used to be !,
DOM "sky-scrapers, or 'whirlin round
And again Bob climbed for the bluebirds nest,
| And again had shows in the buggy shed
| Of Guymo1A,s barn, where still unguessed,
/ Old ghosts romp of the best days deadl
And again gazed from the old schoolroom
! With wistful look of long June day,
! When my cheek the hectic bloom
Caught of Mischief as presume
He had such partial way,
| 1t seemed, toward me,-And again thought
Of probable likelihood to be
| Kept in after school for girl was caught
! Catching note from me-
And down through the woods to the swimming hole
Where the big white, hollow, old sycamore grows
/ And we cared when the water cold,
4 And always ''ducked" the boy that told
/ On the fellow that tied the clothes
/ When life went so like dreamy rhyme,
That it seems to me now that then
The world was having jollier time
/ Than it ever will have again.
| The crude production is received, / am glad to
note, with some expressions of favor from the
| girls but Bob, of course must heartlessly dlss-
| pate my weak delight by saying, 'Well, it's GER
| tainly bad enough; though he goes on with an
air of deepest critical sagaoity and fairness
| considered, as it should be justly as the pro
duction of a jour poet, why, it might be worse
| that is, little worse. y But, by this time the
girls, in a body, are suppressing him, to which
he laughingly submits and calls for quarter, de-
\ claring that he would have been inclined to have
! ventured no comment whatever, but for the very
4 personal allusion Of the poem to his boysh dere-
| Lotions and youthful eecentricties. And now"
he says, when order is restored, ''our other pro-
duction needs attention, and, with our new rein
| forcement we can, with diligence, soon have it
ready for both printer and engraver, and then
we'll wake up the boy (who, / notice, has been
fortunately slumbering for the last quarter of an
hour), and present to him, as designed and in
tended, this matchless creation of our united in
/ tellects." At the conclusion of this speech we
al go good -humoredly to work, and at the close
of half an hour the tedious, but most ridiculous,
! task is announced completed
| AS l arrange and place in proper form here on
the table the separate cards-twenty- In
NUMBER sigh to think that / am unable to
transcribe for you the best part Of the nonsens-
ical work-the illustrations. All can give Is
the written copy Of
ALPHABETICAL ANIMAL SHOW.
| N was an elegant Ape
| Who tied up his bangs with red tape
And wore long veil,
Half revealing his tail
Which was trimmed with jet bugIes and Grape.
| ID was boastful old Bear
Who used TO say,-''Hoomh! declare
/ can eat-f you'll get me
| The children, and let me-
Ten babies, teeth, toenails and hairl'
| 7, was a Goldfish who sighed
When snatched from the home of his pride, :
But could he, embrined
i Guess this fragrance behind
4 How glad he would be that he died.
| II was dandfed dog
Who said, Though its raining Ike fog
i wear nnbreIlah,
Me boy, for fellah
Night just as well travel incogl" aia4
II was an elderly Eel S'
Who would say,-''Wer, I really feel
AS my grandchildren wriggle
And shout 4 should gggle'--
1 A triAe run down at the heel"
d was Fowl who conceded
Some hens might hatch more eggs than she did,
But she'd children plenty
AS eighteen or twenty,
And that was quite all that she needed.
/ " was gluttonous Goat
Who, dining one day, tabled hote,
Ordered soup-bone, au fat
And fish, papier mache
And flet of spring overcoat
III was high.cnltured Hound
Who could clear forty feet at bound;
And coon once averred
That his howl could be heard
For five miles and three-q quarters around.
/
Il i was an Ibex ambitious,
To dive over chasms auspicious;
He would leap down peak
And not light for week.
And swear that the jump was delicious.
81 was a Jackass who said
He had such bad cold in his head
4 If it wasn't for leaving
The rest of us grevng,
He'd really rather be dead
X was a proaigate Kite
Who would haunt the saloons every night;
And often he ust
To reel back to his roost
Too full to set up on it right.
IL was wary old Lynx
Who would say. DO you know wot thinksi--
thinks Of you happen
To ketch me a-nappin.
I'm ready to set up the drinkst'
Iyl was merry old Mole,
Who would snooze all the day in his hole,
Then-al night arrootin'
Around and gaootin-
He'd sing Johnny, Fill up the Bowl"
1 ~ was a caustIcal NautiIus
Like oysters they u serve us,
And can us-preserye us.