. The book of ballads . ew his nose. They entered. On his pallet TJie nol)Ie convict lay,—The bridefrroorn on his marriaye-bed. But not in trim red ri<rht hand a razor held, Fresh sharpened from the hone,And liis ivory neck was severed, .d -ashed into the bone. And when the lamp is lighted In the lon{^ November days,And and lasses mingle At shucking- of the maize ;^\hen pies of smoking- pumpkin rpon the table bowls of black mola-sses (id round from hand to hand ;When .slai)-jnckg, maple-sagared, -Vre hissing- in the cyder, with a dash of gin, Foams in the s
. The book of ballads . ew his nose. They entered. On his pallet TJie nol)Ie convict lay,—The bridefrroorn on his marriaye-bed. But not in trim red ri<rht hand a razor held, Fresh sharpened from the hone,And liis ivory neck was severed, .d -ashed into the bone. And when the lamp is lighted In the lon{^ November days,And and lasses mingle At shucking- of the maize ;^\hen pies of smoking- pumpkin rpon the table bowls of black mola-sses (id round from hand to hand ;When .slai)-jnckg, maple-sagared, -Vre hissing- in the cyder, with a dash of gin, Foams in the social can; -sUs^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. 41 When the good man whets hia whistle, And the g-ood wife scolds the child ;And the g-irls exclaim convulsively, Have done, or I 11 be riled !\Mien the loafer sittuig next them Attempts a sly caress,And whispers, Oh! you possum, You ve fixed my heart, I guess!With laug-hter and with weeping-, Then shall they tell the tale,How Colt his foeman quartered, And died within the ^yasSafe^. (,) >/ffi •1- THE HOOK OF iTlir Drntlj nf 3nhj Dnllnr. [Before the foUowinz poem, wliicb originally appeared in Erasers Maga-zine, could have reached America, intelligence was received in this country ofan ofTrny in Congress, verj nearly the counterpart of that wliicli the Author hashere inia^ined in jest. It was very clear, to any one w!io observed the state ofpublic manners in America, that such occurrences Jiitui happen sooner or Americans apparently felt the force of tlie satire, as the i^nem was widelyreprinted throughout tlie States. It subsequently returned to this countryembodied in an American work on American manners, where it characteristicallyappeared at ^tlie writers oini production; and it afterwards went tl e round ofBritish newspaper!., as an amusing satire by an American, of his countrymensfoibles !] J HE Congress met, the day wet, Van Burentook I lie chair,On either side, the statesman pride of far Kentu
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