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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].

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XCIV. SONNIT-2 WHISKY.

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RITTEN WILE UNDER THE INFLOOENSE THEREOF, OCCASIONALLY
WETTIN MY LIPS WITH THE SAIM.

Whisky, all hale! frum erlyest boyhood, I
Hev ardently admired thy qwalities;
Thowst cloathd my mind with strength—my noze in richest
dyes—
Hale, Whisky, hale! hale, potent son uv Rye!*
When wuss grows wuss, and bad enuff gits badder,
When trubble's waivs across me buzm role,
A nip uv thee expands my shrunken sole,†
Ez wind blowd thro a qwill expands a bladder.
Water is good‡—no man uv sense denies it—
Search thro all nacher and yoo will not meet
A artikle so good for washin feet;
But ez a bevridge—faugh! I despise it.
My stumick turns, and for releef I fly
To thee, eckstract uv corn—2 thee, Red-eye!
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* Alludin to the pleasant fickshun that whisky is made uv rye, wich is
not, by no menes—on the contrary, uv korn.

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† A poetikle ijee, expressin how “Nacher's grate restorer” will coz a
indivijjle 2 spred hisself.

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‡ Wile givin prefrence to my nachrel sustenanse, I do not deny that
yoosis may be made uv uther flooids, wich is librel.

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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].