Billy Dash poems . nched the whole by saying, Hes the wickedest man in town. Friend Gossips mission ended,He bowed and said good day. Hed scarcely reached his dwelling,Which stands across the way, 70 BILLY DASH POEMS. Before old Slander entered,And pacing up and down, Began where Gossip left it: The wickedest man intown. But Gossip was his victim, Old Slander was all right;I thought, Old fellow, blow him. My poem goes gave old Gossip Jesse ; My ! how he combed him down!And then wound up by saying : Hes the wickedest man in town. Again left to my musing, I said now I will write,Ill
Billy Dash poems . nched the whole by saying, Hes the wickedest man in town. Friend Gossips mission ended,He bowed and said good day. Hed scarcely reached his dwelling,Which stands across the way, 70 BILLY DASH POEMS. Before old Slander entered,And pacing up and down, Began where Gossip left it: The wickedest man intown. But Gossip was his victim, Old Slander was all right;I thought, Old fellow, blow him. My poem goes gave old Gossip Jesse ; My ! how he combed him down!And then wound up by saying : Hes the wickedest man in town. Again left to my musing, I said now I will write,Ill jot their language down. And send it out the street theyre chatting, They call me fool and clown,They each agree to publish me The wickedest man in town. Tis strange what times we live in,How all men cut and slash, How each man chops his neighborTo mince meat or to hash. BILLY DASH POEMS. Now isnt it amusingr. From priest to cobbler down,That each one calls his neighbor The wickedest man in town. 71. COURTSHIP. Whiskers, moustache, congress gaiters,Garments brushed by colored waiters,A beaver hat, the hitest style,And face aglow with love-lit smile. Shopping, starching, curling, painting,Laced so tight shes almost , talking, riding, proceeds our modern courting. Tears ago twas spinning, weaving ;Nathan calls to spend an evening;Washing, moppincr, baking, again to go to meeting. Then a real old fashioned wedding :Cookies, doughnuts and plum puddings ;A cow and wheel the setting out ;Beats all how times have cTianged about. THE OEPHANS PRAYER. The Excise Board was sitting : For license, men applied,Assuming, if the price was paid, No one should be listen to petition, And answer every prayer—To legalize the traffic— The Board was sitting there. Men hardened by hard drinking, Fearing neither God or man,Prayed for a hotel license To forward Satans j) dressed in finest broadcloth, (For which poor men ha
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