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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
The follerin sam uv hoomiliashen and agony A DOUBLE-BARRELD WALE!—A CRY UV ANGISH! In the valley and shadder sit we! Job hed biles, but he scraped hisself with a Naman wuz a leper, but he doved into the Jordan, Sampson hed his hair shingled and wuz week We hev biles and are rotten with em, but We hev leprussy, but where 's the Jordan to Our hair is short, and thar's whar our enemies
Job, and Naman, and Sampson, altogether, We kin throw in Lazzyrus with his sores, and For we nominatid Micklellan and Pendleton, at The ox and the ass is yoked—their heads and And the teem is pullin viggerusly, but instid Wale! O my peeple, for the ticket wuz n't war Gnash yer teeth! O ye saints, for the tickit We tried 2 ride two hosses, goin in 2 diffrent And both hosses turned on us and kicked us. And Micklellan hez no chance—he won't hev And Sherman took Atlanta, and chawd up And Lee wants the Weldon road, but he can't
And Gov. Morton took the revolvers from the And the draft won't be resisted, and the provo Wale! For Maine and Vermont, wich wuz Wale! For our rulers oppress us. They let Wale! For the Ablishnists shel hold the orfises, Wale! For in the fucher I see no way uv livin Why wuz I born in2 sich a world! Why wuz Micklellan buried his thousands in the swamps The Ablishnists jeer us, and flout us; they wag And we hev gone up! Petroleum V. Nasby,Paster uv sed Church, in charge. * In korius—all 2gether.
Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T]. |