Arizona republican., 1915-06-20
Violation Of Fimmegam, Neutrality
of
 in Song
Battle of the Grasses

Arrah! Little James, have they telled ye what's afther happenn' tO me ranch They have not Wrra! WirTa, Me eXperimntaations wid interHin- ton have dhrove me out av houses an home It's in m floc<in' now. wd HeaIy monstners an jackrarebts, an nothin' to ate stVln thlm pink pluns that's that KNered Wif pricles yed think nsoides had swapped places with the outsoides a porcupinc. A broth aV a ranch l. be, wid cabbiges that heavy the hired man gifts the pip ivory toime What I didn't mesilf the did what he didn't the horse did which kaaped the fambIy continted be thinlln' thimsivcs back to the ould sod
 The cabin is loolin makes me cross eyed dol It's that pastered vii Johnsin' grass Bermudy grass, an foXtail grass that ye couldn't tell wid micriscoope whether it's hosphtal fer weary willies undherWather submarine what's kivered weed. The soft bed it had fer the pig an the nice corner beyant the irepiaace Where the lady goat Inanicured his whispers wd a tooth brush, he did, meanin no offinse to the feuale hins what laid irish eggs in the fryin pan aN q mornn' breakfast. Thim happy days dye moind, but they're gone now, begorry! broke up intoircly am! Musha!
 Me respctible all right. I'm telln' ye ba1in' it's bechune the places av little TIn Mulligan ould Heinie Schmidts ranch what can't spaake civioized English ben' a Pennsylvaney dootchman The way thin two don't love each ither wud melt wather out av' dairymans milk They don't confabulaate at all widout scat terin' bad angWich over me Vesitabe patch ul it's besprinked wid cuss words lcke a pup wid The thim felys talks ~Id their faces the they don't foght wid their fishts, Tim ben' scary av Heinie Iieine him. I've nary sthoppn' the they shootln' off their mouth organs from fortyfied trinches behint barbed finces. I'm the buffer stkate bechune thim beligerants-me committin no crime at all sayin' mill,in the goat ivry SOonday. I'm gettn' woorst the scrap becase I'm the line av denarkaation But pretty matthers eliminates a riot which is why I'm hibernatin in the desert wid bandy- tailed gopners because. Ochon! home inny
 -fIeine. dye see famous tactgican havn' assimaated the rules warfare whoile worrkr' in a Saint Louie sassage facthry befoCre hittn' the ties fer Arizonny. planted Johnsh' grass all over wid the idea that climbin' the fnce, pcrformn' T dispert dash acrost territory, which 'nesilf captuTIn' the innymies' bag baggage Wid him in il! But Tim Mulligan. gittn' similar 1nintal thwist be his ig noraance naval stratagy, accumulated whin mixin mortar Hoboken. years agone, an planted Bermudy grass his own land The way it growed wud make nashunal forest look loike an mpty dinner pail. Be the powers av Mucahys curley pig Te'n belave iti That Der rEudy wuz over Milligan's fince in Iffy; thrans- gressin' neutrality befoore l could tileglaft remonsthrances the agrocuitural departmint. Wid thiu invadn' armies ready fer d shindy in bacl, yarrd there Nuz only thing to dol did it! I intervened be paantn foxtdH grass on me own Vlaace
 Intervntion has shure criIup in me neck. foXtail growed up night that Jubiant fer a fight as a Kilkenny eat. But it didn't scrap the ither feers all. aiiit did not! The three av thm united into mighty rhalanX an jumped on me, What they didn't do thin isn't worth con templatin' Ie combnin foorces they chased the cabbices hoired cane off the premises, laV- in the goat an pig roostin the roof like sission cabin, an havn' no respict fer da-