Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/L-E-G on a Mule
L-E-G ON A MULE.
- Did you hear of the accident, just t'other day,
- That occurred to a youth of the Y. M. C. A. ?
- One morning, while walking out with his friend Neff,—
- M. W. G. M. of the I. O. O. F.,—
- His friend exclaimed suddenly, "Look there, I say!
- There's a chance for the S. F. P. O. C. T. A.!"
- A "broth of a boy," who was just from a spree,
- Was cruelly beating his m-u-l-e.
- Our hero stepped up to expostulate, when
- The mule kicked his a-b-d-o-m-e-n.
- This doubled him up with a half-muttered phrase,
- As foot No. 2 knocked him e-n-d-ways.
- They bore him home gently, as gently could be,
- And gave him a pint of hot l-oo-t.
- A voltaic plaster they placed, sans delay,
- Where that treacherous mule left his m-a-r-k.
- A hip dislocated; a general jar;
- Striking proofs of "one-mule p-o-w-e-r."
- When the patient first spoke, what d'ye s'pose he did say,—
- This model young man of the Y. M. C. A.?
- Says he, "I'll be b-l-o-w-e-d
- If ever I'll plead for a m-u-l-e!"
