Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — A Fourth of July State. [ARTICLE]

A Fourth of July State.

There was a small boy once living in Texas, Who bought a smajl cannon on purpose to vex us. He poured in the powder, and said, “They’ll be lucky If soon they don’t hear from me there in Kentucky,” But the small cannon bust with such terrible fury That pieces—not peace—reigned from Maine to Missouri. And Johnny was blown, with other stuaU boys, To a State which some persona pronounce Illy noise.