The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-12-06


My opportunity. played
To win.
Did do it? Did get in?
Did |? With la, la, hal grin.
1t took four days,
Eight hours day at that,
TO find enough of the G.. o. T.
Iii Ohio to string together
so as to make a decent funeral.
And lllinoy-
Land Of republican Joy
The G.. o. L. of Grant, Logan,
Long Jones, ct al.
Shivered and shuck,
And shuck and Shivered,
And Sashayed from Joe Davis
TO Egypt, and jumped
Into a hole in the Calumet
And pulled in the hole
After il. Same thing
In Wisconsin, Michigan, the Bay STATE.
Wherever | went, wasn't great?
Seemed as if the Millennium,
Like Richard Ill,
Had come before its time.
do recall
How the old Egyptian smile
Returned to Rameses Morrisonia
| heard him lawf in his sleep
And he is not the sort of man
TO do much OF the hee-ha business
Even when he is hilarious.
| reckon ought to have died
Then. | reckon I'll never
BE any bigger. or taller, or better,
Or heve any more friends
Than had Nov, 1892.
! reckon the funeral
Would have been more
Like it was when Napoleon
Was brought back to the banks
OF the Seine
Than it will ever be again,
Unless | should die to-day.
! reckon il | was to say,
Lord, let the Slide now depart
In peace"
The G.. o. 7. would
Put me i'll a chariot
And send me to glory.
On the dead
l sorter overplayed myself.
G.. T.. made me hot
Under the collar. | thought
That he light have thought
OF what | did for him in g2,
And give ID. ii. a lunch in \. Y.
Then | slung in a few more
Volts. The light ming
Got away from me. lost
My grip. | let Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Wisconsin and
New England run
Their own machines.
i intended to do i'll lllinoy
With my Populistic joker
just what you see.
The JefferSonian- ,JacksOnian
Etc, etc, had got too gay.
1t was for terrapn and truffles,
And trutfieS and terrapin,
Three times day.
SO hit EN-,
And as John Sullivan once
Said
OF man whom he hit
Once in the neck,
" He links I'm hittin him vet
Four years after the occurrence.
But on the dead
l didn't mean to give EN-
Poor old MlSsOury. 1t was
An outrage to the mem'ry
OF the bulwark of the Faithful.
Texas was always uncertain.
1t had a hog element
In 1t you couldn't bet on
Not that | could ever
Get Ill my work there
For much democratic hair,
For they would gouge and scratch
Among themselves, and split
Just enough TO fool outsiders
But IN Ml>SOury
They used 10 ask
How many do you WANT"
And when the count
Was made there never
Was any short. On the contrary
Poor old MisSoury
Always throwed in handful
For good measure.
But it'll be all right in 90.
MisSoury will redeem herself,
Make no mistake.
The state that outlived
Drake and Rodman
And some calamities
OF her own. will take care O
Herself. Norman J. Colman
Still lives. From Lone Jack
To Cape Girardeau: from
AtchiSon County tn the swamps
southeast; along the winding
Merrimac.; on the cavernous
AUX ausse, and where
The wild goose SquawkS
Its yonk on the shaded
NiShnabotna, the SONS
And grandSOns OF the
CompatriOtS of Price, and
Joe Shelby, will wake
10 glory again. That's right.
| reckon FL run over to
RuSSia TO attend the funeral
OF the car
| won't be needed until 1896.
Don't let the G. o. 2. fool YOU.
III be around about
Then.
go to wrap the drapery
About Inc fer awhile.
90 to peaceful dreams
For awhile will
Wake up myself know
Just how long I'll be away.
Don't give up the ship.
But on the dead
! do feel as if poor old Missoury
Had got it
Where the turkey grows his
WhiSkers. Mirabile dictu.
Some more Latin.
But | must be going