The Stockyard Liar
If ever you're handling a rough one,
There's bound to be perched on the rails
Of the stockyard some grizzled old tough one,
Whose flow of advice never fails.
There are plenty, of course, who aspire
To make plain you're only a dunce;
But the most insupportable liar
Is the man who has "ridden 'em once."
He will tell you a tale and a rum one,
With never a smile on his face,
How he broke for old Somebody Someone,
At some unapproachable place;
How they bucked and snorted and squealed.
How he spurred 'em and flogged 'em and how
He would gallop 'em round till they reeled,
But he's "getting too old for it now."
Let them spell from Free Trade and Protection
And give Federation a rest,
For the matter that wants their inspection
Is waiting out here in the West:
And the law that the country requires
At the hands of her Statesmen of sense
Is a law to abolish the liars
That can sit a roughbuck—"on the fence."
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