The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-02
PART TWO.
McNaIIx,s Easter Hat.

McNaIly's Easter Hat.
Not long ago I told of how McNally led
the line,
and, Furthermore, I mentioned that he
couldn't pay his fine;
But Mack, for good behavior, was released
the other day,
And when he left the gang he said that
he would stay away.
lie came to town, and for a time, he
didn't touch drop,
And poor old Patsy Raglan feared he'd
have to close his shop;
But Mack he sent him word, said he:
Don't be discouraged, Pat,
For I'll come round to see you when 1
buy my Easter hat"
The hat that Mack referred to was a
deer he had seen,
A hat of ancient architecture and of Irish
green;
1t annotated Noahs ark this prehistoric
tile;
When Adam in the garden dwelt, perhaps
it was in style.
Twas twenty-seven inches high, the band
was twenty-three;
And, as before 1 mentioned, it was green
as green could be;
Il once no doubt, was silk, il had very
narrow brim:
The crown was very broad and in the mid
die il was slim.
Twas Saturday. at eventide, that Mack
secured the hat.
And with it tucked beneath his arm he
went to call on Pat;
He tarried at the bar; he drank up every-
thing in sight
And then he laid him down upon the
floor to spend the night.
EN4
At midnight Raglan closed the bar and
stil upon the floor
McNally slumDered on as If he'd sleep
And Raglan, as he gazed upon the form of
Mack espied
The cherished Easter hat that nestled
snugly at his side.
He quickly stopped and from the floor he
gathered up the prize,
Then from behind the bar he brought a
lot of Easter dyes;
He labored like an artist till the hat THAI
once was green
Took on as bright an orange tint as he
had ever seen.
The emblems of the Orangemen he painted
on the crown,
And on each side the English coat of arms
he painted down.
And on the band, in lurid letters plainly
to be seen
He painted the inscription, God protect
the blessed Queen"
On Easter morning Mack awoke ana
staggered to his feet,
And after many efforts launched himself
upon the street;
But Just without the barroom door he
stood and yelled for Pat,
For 1t occurred to him that he was short
his Easter hat
When Raglan heard McNallv,s cr;es bo
tumbled out of bed;
lie hurried down and placed the hat rrop
McNally's head;
lie steadied him a bit and helped him get
his bearings straight
ana watched him as he tackled away upon
the tide of Fate.
McNally navigated till he met an Irish
mick
Who when he saw the dicer quickly gath
cred up a brick;
lie took a long and steady aim, and then
released the bat;
VI course, it struck McNalIy squarely on
his Easter hat.
gust of wind that happened to be in
the neighborhood
OoerVlng Mack's misfortune, thought the
Joke was pretty good;
10 enter in the sport it rolled the hat
upon its brim
And kept il lodging Mack and inst be,.o,,,7
the reach of him.
Now bound in Mack's direction came the
widow Houlhan;
heturhlug from an alley where she'd been
TO rush the can.
Inc widow was of ample girth, and no
RDH
word in opposition TO the widows rigbt
of way.
b't Mack observed her not; on other bust
ness he was bent;
10 oVertake his hat was now McNally's
sole intent
He struck her inst amidsbin. ba careened
the widow round;
She luffed Bit but finally she settled
on her ground.
she gathered up McNally, and she tossed
nun in the air;
she pummelled him; she scratched his
go race; she pulled out all his hair;
She tore his rigging into shrewds, az
then upon his head
one damned the empty GROWER can, and
lelt him there for dead.
Now Mack is in the hospital upon bed
of pain;
Inc doctors are afraid he'll never be him
self again;
aud by McNally's awful fall we are re-
minded that
1Aeres many a man can trace his ruin
to an Easter hat
Lawrence Porcher Hext
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