Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-18
Ssngerville.


I've attended one sitting upon the house floor
For Co. r. courtesy I'm grateful the more.
That | Niinessed proceedings | had ne er be-
The straight, swift despatch with which acts are
gone DER
struck me much, but noticed each one had eye
And tonsu- when one fingered his particular pie
Half the morning with swift shi ting scenes PASSED.
when To-
not the p nor Indian came TO be acted on no,)
But down swooped on the Speaker the bill of the
Aud chaIl nged the fire OF the DO ~ below
One Wakefield mot cornteld) seemed pricked with
a briar,
In that its last claus held the element dire;
YET in r gard TO the bills badly spent
But solely TO save souls of sense frOn the scent.
Here Held walked the forum snd called for a stay
OF the swift moving fow that had run for the day,
For he aid,hpugh ne knew not the nature habits
OF cro.s rom Iueir four legged bre hren, the rab
bits,
And couldn't defend either works or wsvs still
(tier. he wiped the sweat OF Of his own little biln
There were things. more than wings he would show
Would tropb the keeper of the little town ill.,
Which tn members could see for themselves. would
And he opeurd, and read /, light oct of TIL book
The provision that worked on his nerves like wiz
ard,
That last clause eremative and cruel that said
Town Treasurer's immediately shall burn up the
hesd;
Here he rose like a storm In his eloquent ire,
But u hi0t of belnane -omehow tempered his fire,
And he trembled to think of the vengesnce so luil
That the rs wife would reek-if good sized ano
we'll
when the bills as the bill orders turn up In smell
Up promptly came Peadeld all smiling and young
nj led he crow a bow md his dirre fiji, sung.
He said mo- Seemed to think the ow born
10 make merr, music-a bird paragon
lie would like e'eiy pair gone all peahelds would
shone,
That they hove y)r for mischief wherever you 70.
lie would put under ban out iswed BY the laws
His rayening bill and ferrous claws
And only condemned the last csuse because
1t wasn't - hot on the subjects base claws.
Then Bath walked the field with a sudden bright
thought
To make the bill useful a. proper they ought
And a ssd twinkle lighting hi. blue eye wascsusht
When the hint touched the stomach with what It
was frauKhtl
To make this anne ndment. his wisdom had planned
Town rreasurers TO have all the bounty crows
And since they mast cater to crow crusade swells,
send them in to b. served at Angus a hotels.
'rwasnt my business to say bat thought all the
~ stripping the birds from the tail to the head
uuiils and athers to soften the home sick ian
bed.
I've slept nights and nights on a fat oaken rail.
Aud though not like down my sleep Gid not fad
All wear, With travel, I've laid down my bones
la Bal more car sh' d. upon the hard stou.s,
| thought, perhaps dreamed of softer couch then
Ye. sl-pt-snd In time might do it again.
CONNIE nd me to rails or paved floor Of a shed
But spare me a night la a travellers bed.
Then Pat an GAL lovers of themselves and potaters
Rubbed the bird the wrong way like the ysrirst
hater>,
And whi,eseld saws ache on you bad odored fellow
Til bounti-s shall burn the last blasted b. AZ mellow
ysssalboro-B esrleigh thy doom not specker
Comp .ssisu have !. IN u pestifrrous pecker'
But 1--we will pay the co ective small boy
o .. ppsr thy wing and thy black sasde destroy
This Gu the COWS bin 10 . -iyle that sss new.
Aud BAngor's best barker inclined to that view,
Blu; no so-the email boy had friends there and
then.
the ker that hit the crow bill the worst csrter
In q xay qgi As solemn Is indignant barker,
l (And perhaps he ielt solemn, And no joke was
meant)
When he owed up the versatile crows in inten,
One ought not accuse tue crow ctuesde of ievtty
4 It's rufh Or . tai. Il told with 8 heavy T,
As II 1t stir, all the green bile round hi. ga
/ That III s.syriAn came down--noi the came
And ate up his apple ratch. barrels and all.
I " .tn columns of casually eriune and misdeed
The crow holocausrers did piteous plead,
I I'll il seemed ~ IL legislatures heir to,
Encsp, the states bull aing and that good shar'
Its bsd airs and crsmped chairs and eaadied n
j woes,
All the ". came from ea~s of the visrd wantou
CT w.,
Her, .r incsis came up, there vi, in his hair.
And hi eyes b, AIMED out mirth As he cooked to ih'
] chair,
Which mus, be sharp .. lightnins and see every
He wss big snd his seat in the farthermost row
Must have bern souuder wood thans those nea
~. ~. m 4 r,~d ua,s, about all there room,
And ap there where the birss ay be seemed qaits
n. iSrc chat.y birds Though he spoke very slow
AID MAS very good fie.A TO tine poor pesfered er0v