Year: 1870

Home Again." was written by fellow who
got out of Jail aud captured and brought
back.


The song " Tramp, Tramp" was composed by
a fellow who undertook to walk a hundred miles
in ten hours and lost his money.


"Who Will Care for Mother Now," was the re-
suit of young man getting to know more than
his father and going far away from his paternal
home. His mother managed to get along.


"Just Before the Battle Mother" was written
by an ambitious young man, who thought he
could, and was going to, lick Tom Allen but
he got one on the jaw which laid him out. His
mother never replied to his poetry.


Z" Love Her STILL was written by mooney
dry goods clerk, whose betrothed married an
other man. He better look out how he loves
her still.


Bury Me in the Garden" was written by a
young lady who going to commit suicide,
but, suddenly remembering that there was no
garden attached to her fathers boarding house,
she concluded to go out and buy "a uew water
fall instead of dying"


Tommy Don't Co." was suggested to the
author by hearing mother teasing Tom not to
go to the circus that afternoon, offering to let
him hold the baby all the time if he'd stay at
home. But Tommy went and while he
looking at the two-humped camel, the zebra
whirled and kicked his head off. A warning to
boys.


"My Love is on the Sea- was the effusou of
young lady who was engaged to a deck hand
on a propeller that ran between Detroit and Buff
falo He WASH on the sea any of the time, and
she knew it, only he used to get 81 half seas, -
and, finally, saw girl up at DuDkrk that be
liked better, and the poetess went and married a
terry-boat wheelsman.


Write Me Letter from Home" This song
was composed by young who went to
Colorado to go into gold mining, and failed, and
he wanted the old man at home to send him
some stamps to get back.


" We Parted by the River Side" This really
pathetic song was suggested by young lady
taking seat a draw bridge in Chicago to
catch last look of her lover who was a scow
sailor, and whose vessel was then being towed
out into the harbor. He never returned having
got into Fl ght at Milwaukee, and being obliged
TO get for Canada.


" I'm Lonely Tonight, Love" This was com
posed by young fellow in Detroit, who went
hunting ducks upon the st. Clair Flats, and, by
the overturning of his boat, had to hang to IA log
all night. lie wasn't lonely as he tried to
make her believe, as the mosquitoes made the
time pretty lively, and IA coal-barge cabin boy
shot at him several times for canvass-back
duck.


Fairy Forms Past me Flittering" The
writer of this song was engaged to a lovely and
estimable young lady, whose only fault was that
she weighed two hundred pounds and had "A pug
nose and red hair. The boys poked fun at him
so that he broke off the engagement, and one
evening she kept walking back and forward before
his boarding house, wishing to get hands on him
for just two minutes. He saw her from behind
the blinds, and hence the song.


" Rock Me to Sleep Mother, was written by
big fellow six feet high, and his mother very
properly told that if he wanted rocking he ight
get into Z" The Cradle of the Deep"


=" Be Kind to Thy Sister," was written by a
fellow who didn't care snap for his sisters, but
was always raising his hat to and buying pea
nuts and candy for all other boys sisters.
That's just the way with 'em all.