. The Squibob papers . The Last Sad Rites.—See page ON SPRINGFIELD MOUNTING. 51 VII. OH, then they ware all spotted oerWith all the colors that the sarpent wore,They laid em both upon a bed,And they swelled up and di-i-ed I 52 THE SQUIBOB PAPERS. VIII. THEN when they had gin up the ghost,From Springfield Mounting they wentpost;And they larfed, and sung, as up they went,As chipper, as if there want no pizen S&r-penL. Exit Zeetjbbabel and Molly Bland.—See page 52. ON AGRICULTURE. San Francisco, Feby 7, J. L. Warren, Sec. Cal. State Ag. Society : My Dear Sir : I have the hono


. The Squibob papers . The Last Sad Rites.—See page ON SPRINGFIELD MOUNTING. 51 VII. OH, then they ware all spotted oerWith all the colors that the sarpent wore,They laid em both upon a bed,And they swelled up and di-i-ed I 52 THE SQUIBOB PAPERS. VIII. THEN when they had gin up the ghost,From Springfield Mounting they wentpost;And they larfed, and sung, as up they went,As chipper, as if there want no pizen S&r-penL. Exit Zeetjbbabel and Molly Bland.—See page 52. ON AGRICULTURE. San Francisco, Feby 7, J. L. Warren, Sec. Cal. State Ag. Society : My Dear Sir : I have the honor to ackn owledgethe receipt, this day, of your very polite and flat-tering invitation (dated Aug. 25, 1855,) to deliv-er a poem of my own composition before the An-nual meeting of the State Agricultural Society, inSeptember last. Though somewhat diffident re-garding my powers in the poetical line, (feelingin fact very much like the Irishman immortalizedby Miller, who when asked if he could play uponthe fiddle, replied that he presumed he could,though he had never tried,) I shall accept theinvitation, and shall endeavor to discharge the du-ty devolving upon me to the best of my do me more than justice in supposing that Itake a strong interest in the newly developed re-sources of our glorious State, in an agricultural 54 THE SQUIBOB PAPERS. point of view; and I have in fact, as you may beaware,


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