Wit & humour > Comic songster

THE COMIC SONGSTER.
in fact the blind may have their sight,
The dumb may have a tongue;
The lame may quickly run a race.
The old again be young.
One doze will make you laugh or cry,
Your hungry belly fills ;
In short, if you would never die,
Take Morrison’s Vegetable Pills.
For the College says they’ll do it,
O! yes, they’re sure to do it,
They’re safe and sure to do it—
Are the Vegetable Pills.
BEAUTIFUL BIDDY OF SLIGO.
My father and mother were gentle folks all,
Although our affairs did awry go,
Because they couldn’t make the whiskey-shop do,
In the beautiful county of Sligo.
The trade went on badly—they both fretted sadly,
My friends looked down, left many to sigh O! *
For beauty, my mother, there wasn’t such another
In all the whole county of Sligo.
(Spoken.)—By the hokey there was not; and
there was a most beautiful lot of us when we were
all assembled together. There was me and Charlie,
the dog—the tom cat and thirteen kittens—the
pig and her young cubs, all standing at the table
at once, waiting for the praties to be spread. Who
says grace, says my father? Bow, now, now, says
Charlie. Go along out of that you young kitten,
» ho asked you to spake? Look here, altho’ you’re
ail my own childer, bread and born, we want none