The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-16
BALLAD OF "TEDDY'S TERRORS.s

There wus lovely regiment whose men
WIZ strong and stout.
Fer some they had diplomas and fer some
WIS warrants out,
And Wood ne was their colonel bold, an
Teddy was his mate.
And they called EN- ''Teddy's Iambkins"
Ter their sent!eness was great.
Now good ole man named shafter says 20
Teddy and 10 Wood:
There's joint called Santiago where We
amt well understood.
So take yer tanbIke regiment. and II you
are polite
1 think yer gentle little ways'n set the
matter right"
So when Teddy's boys got movin' and the
sun Was on the fry,
And the atmosphere was coaxin' them to
lay right down and die,
some gents from Santiago who wus mad
cause they NQs there
Lay down behind some bushes to put bull
lets through their hair.
Now Teddy's happy Sunday school wus
movIn on lis way
A-ssektn' III its peaceful style some Dagos
fer 10 slay.
And the gents from Santiago, with aversion
In their heart,
| Wus hdIn' at the crossroads fer to blow
en- all apart
There's a Spanish comic paper that has
give sundry digs
A-caliin OF Us towards an dishonest Yam
kee pigs.
And l guess these folks had read 1t. and
had thought ';would be Immense
jest TO paralyZe them iauDklns they was
running up agains.
So when our boys had pretty near arrived
where they was at,
And the time it was propitious fer to start
that there combat,
They let 'er fly. a tfinkin' they would make
a dreadful tear,
An then rubber necked TO see if any Yam
KEGS wills still there.
Now you can we'll imagine wot dreadful
start they had
To sac EN- still a-standin' there and iookin'
bold and bad
Fer when this gentle regiment had heard
tie bullets fly
. They had a vilent hankerin' to make them
Spdniards die.
So Teddy. he came runnin' with his glasses
on his nose.
And when the Spanish saw his teeth you
may believe they froze;
And Wood was there long with i'm. with
his cheese knife in his hand
While AT their heels came yell.n' all that
peaceful. gentle band.
They fought them bloody spaniards at
their own familiar game,
And the gents from Santiago didn't ike
II quite the same
Fer you plug yer next-door neighbor with
rife ball or two
An he don't feel so robustous as when
he's a-piuggin' you.
SO when the shells WIS hoppln'. while the
breech-hlocks clicked ard smoked
An the powder woIldn', blow away anti
a Teller choked.
That regiment Of Yankee pigs was gunnjn
through the bush.
An ralsin' merry hell with that there san
uago push.
Then Teddy seen EN- runnin'. and he give
And grabbed red-hot rife where a guy
had le. il fall
| And tlxin' OF his spectacles more firmly or
lie starred 10 assasslnate them al arou7A
the place.
SO through the scruhbv underhrusA from
where the thorns wan.d rip a feler's
| He led his boys R-dancin on. a-.sho 'i;!n'
LEFT and right.
And not niss;n' many Spanish knobs TIA.
showed 'emselTes Il sight
And when them Santiago gents WIFE I'm
| Then Teday's bows they took a lock and
| found that they wy lost
| And a. their crewei enemies was freed
fron earthly pain
| They Al SAT down % Ha.t fer friends >,
lead EN- hack again.
That's re tale Il T@6dy : Terriers ana me
! va.a-t deed they .75-a. '' '''e
But all ta.es ny should have morals. so
. course tbs tale has ere
else voU o..
| Fer recaaas vou'H tsa0k -1e Ter I. -.
before ger game = through:
! TIE sct3!e~ hoy RS. wears rha h}ya a.
se9..F-ike and meek
/ Eat d-ubr ht',l nr.ot 30 BfA1A +. v,,,
SAX 1iTr on thA cheek
| Al should vow g IN sied b.t. vs,
want - have \ care
Yer z r. ever e,srts - ash; he'r aa.sa--
Cswi knows where,
-S,er..n z. Whitman in TIE New York
Eeras.