Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — On a Bit Of a Spree. [ARTICLE]

On a Bit Of a Spree.

Three gallus young cocks of a neigh, boring city, Went on a grand tempest in a back fc country town. , 4The when unimportant And merci, ful pity, Concealing true names, calls them Jones, Smith and Brown.) Away from their mammas who ply the stern slippers. These gay-feathered chickens in a spirit of fun— With craws foil of whiskey—the horrid young clippers— That evening contracted that village to run. Act first on their programme, a ballroom to visit, And air their fine breeding, tony manners and style; Till sick of the nuisance, polite but explicit The request of tlie party for their absence awhile. Discretion, ’tis stated, is better than valor; A hint to the timid quite as potent "as kick; These roosters departed, and, wending to Bailor— An’s Hole-iu-the-Wall, play’d a small LaFayette trick. Act second is prosy. All prose was the third one, As the actors discovered somewhat to their coat: For the trick that they play’d was most an absurd one, Such as drunken men play when their reason they've lost. One of the fowls cabbaged a lantern when they came down from the ball-room and pawned it for arrested and taken before Justice Jackson for trial, who fined and costed him about sls.