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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861 [1865], The Squibob papers. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf548T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
My Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
I see nothing to regret in the arrival of your I already begin to feel a grand agricultural, floral Here's to the land of potatoes and carrots, Whose banks grow wild, rich bacon and parrots; Where each apple and pear a dollar apiece is, And a man may devour just as much as he pleases; (Spoken — If he's the money to pay for them.) Where the soil is teeming with vegetable treasures, And a pumpkin ten feet in circumference measures; Where to root up a turnip, an ox team employed is;
By each laborer a very large salary enjoyed is; (Play on the word celery.) And kind Colonel Warren, with interest watches The growth of his parsley and marrowfat squashes, And stirs up the farmers, and gives them rules of action, and incentives to exertion, and constantly teaches, How they ought not to let Oregon get ahead of them but establish nurseries at once where they could raise at very trifling expense, all kinds of grafted fruit, pears and apples, and cherries and the most delicious peaches, &c., &c., &c. That last line seems a little exuberant, probably With great respect and esteem Your friend and ob't serv't. Squibob:
Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861 [1865], The Squibob papers. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf548T]. |