{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3606", "width": "2251", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "J.^-^\\nV.\\n:-o^\\n-..r:)^l^^\\\\^ i.\\n,0\\nA^\\n,0^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^o\\nc:\\na s\\nv^*\\nX\\n^v^\\nI-\\nOfl^\\ns\\nii\\n^U^\\nV\\n0\\n-(K;\\nV", "height": "3422", "width": "2234", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "i? 5S.\\n^T\u00c2\u00bb Ar o G^ A\\nr^ o G^ *;w^, A o G^\\nfsV e o o\\nI-", "height": "3464", "width": "2201", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1950", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "THE HASH HOUSE, HASHVILLK.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "OUR\\nAMERICAN HASH:\\nA SATIRE..\\nIN PROSE AND VERSE:\\nBy JOHN M. DAGNALL,\\nAUTHOR OF SEVERAL EPIC, AND OTHER LYRICAL, NATIONAL, AND\\nNARRATIVE POEMS.\\nILLUSTF^ATED\\nNEW YORK:\\nPUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,\\n1880.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by\\nJOHN M. DAGNALL,\\nIII th\u00c2\u00ab Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C\u00c2\u00bb\\nr\\nELF.OTTtOTTPED BY VINCENT DILL,\\n25 27 i EW CHAMBERS ST., NEW TORK.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe following racy, warm, piquant, pithy, lofty, sententious, slashing,\\nquaint, discursive, versatile, prosaic pointed periods and rhythmical\\nstanzas, form the discourse of an artist, Quill Chromo, who, one day\\nwhile he sat sketching in a glen, metes out to us, in prose and metre,\\nhis thoughts and feelings as the result of the way by which he sacri-\\niiced his dignity to the delectable luxury of Hash. But logically, if\\nit had not been for the miseries of indigestion, self-inflicted by his own\\nmouth, the reader would not have had the pleasure of reading his\\nversified description of feasting on the peculiar substance known as\\nHash, of which he was so abundantly supplied the first day at his\\nboarding-house in the village of Hashvilie.\\nThe fastidious may say, after reading his remarkable remarks on\\nthe repast, that the Hash made him feel a /eei\\\\e too sensitive in giving\\nvent to his pent-up feelings in such a ludicrous style of satire.\\nThe idea may enter the mind of a clergyman who may smile seri-\\nously at such a substance as Hash being so animating in its effects as\\nto inspire monologues on the nature and dignity of man, and perhaps,\\nwonder at the same time why it wouldn t answer equally as well as\\nbrain food for the production of sermons.\\nThe politician may snarl at the impropriety of his allusions to them\\nand their doings, and put him down, not only as an eater of Hash, but\\nalso as a political rhinoceros, a trifle too savage, perhaps, and eager to\\nreform abuses in our American political system of government, and\\nwonder at the same time why he has made politics a leading idea\\nthrough half the satire.\\nBut generally the reading public will set him down simply as a\\nconscientious satirist of corrupt national aftairs and many who can\\nforejudge the future of the nation may say Although ridicule flows\\nfreely throughout his details on Hash, the hero, you will find, is grave\\nand serious enough, giving us information and thoughts upon our\\nsocial and political condition most worthy to be considered.\\nThe proprietors of boarding-houses may want to know what right\\nthe author had to hurt their feelings with his impertinent remarks on\\nprofitable Hash.\\nNow, to any of his readers who may feel their gastronomies irritated\\nfrom swallowing the allusions of the subject matter of Hash, herein\\ndished up to them, the author off ers them his tendftr regards as a\\nconsoler for their sensibilities being so easily touched at every sup-\\nposable incident they may fancy refers to them.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPART I. FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPAGE.\\nRemembering the Feast Hash and Life Without Blood\\nWithout Life Stink Weed The Victim of Slow Death\\nA New Deception The Tender Repast Hash and\\nBristles Hash and Hairs Her Boarders eat Hash\\nAND talk Beef Hash and Smiles The Lady Keeper of\\nthe Hash House A Single Meal, 7\\nPART II. EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nHash on Chinaware Plates Waiting on the Ladies\\nInvited to a Party The Party at Hashville The Flir-\\nTATiON Hop-Light- Loo Gone as a Cloud A Romping\\nMoll, 23\\nPART III. THREE ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nAdvice A Seductive Meaty Compound Hash and Beef Com-\\npared Hash, Art and Genius Laws for Hash Makers, 45\\nPART IV. TEN ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nHash the Poet s Enemy Hash and Life Insurance Hash as\\na Reformer Hash and Freedom Hash and the Consti-\\ntution Tyranny for Freemen Hash attacking a Pluck\\nThe Hash Regulation s Tall Talk The Hash Beetle\\nHash a Demoralizer The Song of Unistasia Hash rules\\nthe Land, 54\\nPART V. TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nIn the Game of Life who Wins Beef or Hash The Hash\\nFossil -The Secret of the Fossil The Epicticus-ootus\\nThe Mystic Wonder Hash a Vile Despot, 79\\nPART VI. FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nIn the Mouth of Columbia Book Pirate, the Brain Can-\\nnibal Hash Laws and Trash Frauds Hash on an Itching\\nPalm Un^tasia s Song of the Ship Words to sterner\\nMusic set Columbia s Rebuke Quill Chromo s Oration\\nColumbia in Tears Painted and Framed, 86", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nPART I\\nREMEMBERING THE FEAST.\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00a33I^\\nS eating is a duty\\nof our existence, we\\nshould be particular both\\nas to the quality and quan-\\ntity of the substance parta-\\nken of It is of the utmost\\ndigestible importance, in\\norder to make every part of\\nthe human machine work\\nharmoniously for, as we\\nare of the blood the sub-\\nject it therefore deserves\\nour special scrutiny to know\\nfrom what sort of ingre-\\ndients the blood should be\\nmade. Water and gross\\nfood must not be called\\nblood-makers. To be wise\\nis to be happy on that\\npoint the formation of\\npure blood in the veins.\\nTherefore, as eating is a\\npleasure, and man s blood\\nthe life, we should supply\\nthe natural want of it from\\nsources of the best mate-\\nrials, namely fish, vegeta-\\nbles, flesh, fowl and wheat.\\nNow, Hash considered\\nin all its forms, looked at\\nfrom every side, closely ex-\\namined, magnified, turned\\nover-and-over on your plate,\\nshould never gain your ap-\\nproval as a blood nourisher\\nit is not a vein replenisher\\nit can t make parchment for your exterior, nor flesh for your interior\\nman therefore, I would advise its savory unction to be snift up the\\nnose, so that it may there, in your snuff -taker, act as a stimulant", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nonly; operating thus, as a volatile, nasal sauce, may gain -for it\\nsome renown as an appetizer for eatables of the real blood-making\\nkind. But if your stomach should desire to be intimate with Hash,\\nlet it be taken in small portions an ounce of it about once a month\\nthe first thing in the morning after getting out of bed. Then take a\\ngood brisk walk in the suburbs for country contemplation, so as to\\ndivert your mind from thinking of the greasy, bilious burden in your\\nstomach, where, it being freighted, you may groan like a brig ballasted\\nwith railroad iron in a storm you may find it all that your stomach\\nneeds on that day to chymify. It will fill your mind with thousands\\nof ideas, and cause them to fly from the crucible of your hot cranium,\\nlike sparks from a horseshoer s anvil. This accounts for mine being so\\nluminous and unique this morning. They arise from Hash\u00e2\u0080\u0094 clear and\\ndistinct\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not the Hash, but the ideas. What pleasantry, to be sure\\nWho would think that the frequent taste of Hash, having pass d from\\nmy mouth, could now make my mind so lively Yes although the\\nflavor of Hash is gone from my jaws, yet, the self-same jaws can t\\nquit the savory theme. I, so joyous in my raillery, just think of it\\nI, so poor in purse, and yet so rich in agreeable sensations Many\\na person with more money, would envy my good feelings aye, buy\\nup all the Hash in town to make a corner in it, as the speculator says,\\nif they thought it would produce the same lively sensations in others,\\nas its nourishing presence does in my own stomach. He knows it is\\nthe thing now-a-days to say: Assist me help me to some more;\\nTm in want of it. For the greedy seldom say enough; it is a\\nword, their gluttony has never taught them to utter. Oh, how ex-\\nhilarated how happy I feel with myself! so light! so spiriiuel As\\nbuoyant as a fleecy gossamer, my nature is now in a state of flight; I\\nfeel the fledged poetic bird Avithin me thus inclined to sing\\nJust think of it an artist at a table.\\nWith no other substance on it, but Hash\\nLumpy, fat, and disagreeable.\\nWith here and there a hair mixed in the mash.\\nBetter had I stayed in bed and slept\\nUpon an empty stomach, -than awakened\\nFor breakfast, consisting of Hash, which kept\\nUrging me to it, down stairs, to wend.\\nIts savory smell, my nose would ne er have known.\\nNor my palate have tickled with flavor appetizing\\nNo fine Hash have swallowed minus a bone\\nMy throat, on greasy lumps, got gormandizing.\\nI should have refused it, and set aside\\nThe plate before me, put there hot and smoking,\\nAnd to the servant, opened out my eyes quite wide,\\nHearing her tongue at me, then joking.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nAm M\\nV\\\\r,\\nThe Hash is nicely cooked this morning, sir\\nSmell how rich the odors from it rise\\nOne plateful will but grease your lips, I m sure,\\nWhile two of it will tend to make you wise.\\nHad I then known the merit of saying no,\\nPhoebe Jane, I dont like the article you name\\nGot up from my chair, and said: no more for me, I go,\\nPerhaps I should not now, the viand blame.\\nBut, the girls so easily do on me impose\\nThey induce me to take things they alone choose\\nAs practical jokes, my patience for to lose.\\nAt their sly tricks, which doth them much amuse.\\nHASH AND LIFE.\\nBut, I blame myself for letting them operate on my credulity.\\nJust fancy, me in the maturity of my years, so calm, and given much\\nto reflection, on the nature of things generally, having accepted the\\nsavory invite of Hash, without investigating the properties of it, and\\nits adaptability to my innate being as an article of food. But, as the\\ndays are not alike, and food not all the same, perhaps I ought not\\nto wonder at the change in my feelings lately brought on by the use\\nof Hash, whose savory juices, even now thinking of it, waters my", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nteeth, and seems to have soured my natural sweetness of disposition.\\nPerhaps if it had not been served up on an ornamental plate an\\nearthernware plate, adorned with a bit of Chinese landscape, so flatter-\\ntering to my own artistic proclivities, I would not have responded so\\nreadily to the unctuous invitation ofHash. But what ear could resist\\nsuch music? It was the Hash tune that established a mutual friend-\\nship between me and it those sonorous linky lumps, whose fatty\\ncarbon points vibrated telephonic invitations from Hash. But it\\nsent forth its savory smell to my room a long time before I came\\ndown stairs to the break fast- table, upon which it steamed, piping hot,\\ninvitingly there for the voluntary exercise of my jaws.\\nYes, its smell was the prospectus which informed me what my\\nappetite was to indulge in. Now, if I had done the eating of it\\nafterward, as well as in advance of my presence at the table where\\nI calculated my capacity for stowing it away while eating it with the\\ngravity of a parson at a wedding, I would not now feel, as I do, thus\\ndisposed to complain. No I should have resisted the substance\\nmost solid. Yes when it was presented to me, I should have com-\\nplained of having no appetite. He is oft made poor who has more\\nconfidence than wisdom, and he is oft made sick who has too much\\nconfidence in the purity of his food.\\nThe fact is, I ought to have been late at the table, just when each\\none of the other boarders were taking a third plateful of it, and leaving\\nbut a remnant of its presence on the dish. I would then have come in\\nfor some of it at the small particle end of little bits here and there just\\nenough of it scattered about the dish so as to save it from the empty\\ndisgrace of no more Hash this morning, sir, you re too late. In that\\ncase regret for the disappearance of the nourisher, would have been a\\npleasure my grief would now have turned to joy, for the dear absent\\none fair Hashana far, far away from my sight gone\u00e2\u0080\u0094 perhaps to\\nJericho. But my eyes were bright, and my heart felt glad in fine,\\nI rejoiced I was among other ladies and gents, who were at the table\\nlong in advance of me, with their eating jaws playing the Hash drama.\\nThis, too, was the signal for me to play my part.\\nGiving it the credit of depriving me\\nOf health, of art-work infallible,\\nWhich it, so far, has done quite easily,\\nIn spite of my health-rules, hygienical.\\nWho will pay the doctor if it makes me sick\\nNow this question comes quite useful\\nWithout money, he might leave me quick.\\nAnd my jaws receive of physic ne er a toothful.\\nNo money, emetics warm to buy.\\nMy stomach for to free from Hash entire\\nBut down in bed quite painful I might lie,\\nTill Hash and life together there expire 1", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASP. H\\nWITHOUT BLOOD, WITHOUT LIFE.\\nNow, I being a being, one of the vast universe, a being composed of\\nmind and matter, and deriving my blood from the products of earth,\\nmust cautiously here admit, that since my blood has been deprived\\nof one of its essential constituents of strength beef I feel myself\\naltered, considerably modified, my vitality reduced, some of my\\nwonted power gone. Now, I d like to know what right had the\\nHash-tempter to make me weak me, a human being naturally strong.\\nIt isn t fair, it s wicked it s an injustice to the being itself, almost a\\ngrave injustice thus to try and blunt with heavy Hash all its faculties acute.\\nThis outrage to my physical nature deserves my just resentment. Against\\nwrong, vengeance in a generous heart is heroism exalted hence, I\\nnow burn with a desire to avenge the injury. But, it isn t always wise to\\nresent with blows from the bare knuckles. Balls made of Hash ought\\nto be the weapons with which to make the attack. With these I might\\nwin the battle but I fear my name would live in the criminal calendar\\nas an assaulter and batterer. No, I ll shun, but pardon not the offender\\nfor depriving me of nutritious substance, then I shall, in my own\\nhonor, triumph over myself Safety lies where one looks toward\\nhimself; anger is often its own worst enemy, therefore I pardon thj\\nimprudence. Hash-tempter, for thus making the son of an honorabk\\nman whose soul before he came here was the pride of courage, raiseo\\nup to dignity in art and thought now feel that he need not hope foi\\nfame in art, as talent, being hash-fed, only pretends, while genius win:\\nthe world s ear, when on beef and mutton fed.\\nWould you know that while the mind teaches, the tongue inform,\\nthat a man s success in life depends upon his health hence, whe\\nI get my strength back again, I shall be more sparing of it.\\nWithout Blood -Without Life, is the Divine Law, Now, aw\\nmy action of being commenced when I was quite young, and I ytt\\nliving on earth with all my faculties fully matured, I still desire to work\\ninside of the enveloping folds of the outer cuticle. I want all the\\nfaculties of my mental and physical machinery to obey the dictates of\\nmy mind, and I want my instincts preserved and reasonably exercised\\nwith my life these were given to me to take care of, therefore, I don t\\nwant the life containing these appetites and desires starved half-way on\\nits course. No, I must live I can t renounce the world yet awhile.\\nHe lives long who does not feed on Hash, more particularly not in\\nHashville. In searching for pleasure we often find disgust. Just my\\nluck in coming here. It does seem to me, though, that Hashville\\nwants my faculties to cease working, yes, wants me to stop exercising\\nthose faculties wants me not to do the work that fate hath assigned to\\nme. Just think of it, my stomach deprived of digestive material I\\nmy blood getting no substance fit to make me feel as strong as a\\nhealthy human being should do in Hashville It was only yesterday\\nthat I was motionless and sad nearly all day on the bank of the\\nriver, spiritless, having no zest for art sketching.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "i OliR AMERICAN HASH\\nSTINK WEED.\\nIf you d ask me the cause of my sorrow,\\nAnd why I from life so much miser\\\\- borrow,\\nWhen not having for it any real need,\\nI would tell you the cause of it came from\\nSmelling the odor of foul stink weed.\\nIf you d ask me, was there a thorn in my breast\\nPenetrant that did sharply extend\\nThrough the rose of my heart, making it bleed,\\nI d say no, in a phrase not having the best\\nOf smells to its name, that of foul stink weed.\\nYou can believe what I tell you about the sad spell\\nThat held me fast down to the bank\\nWhere no floweret in growth could succeed\\nTo gain the art of the perfuming smell,\\nThe truth is it came from foul stink weed.\\nRank as it is, and strong in its power.\\nIt took all the cheerfulness out of my heart\\nWhen for it there wasn t the least need\\nOf my nose there fully an hour\\nUp snuffing a bouquet of rank stink weed.\\nBetter the charm of smelling wild flowers\\nBy the lane-side, fence-rail and hedgerow found,\\nOr the odor of garlic which doth far exceed.\\nWhile it adorns the loveliest of bowers.\\nThe most fragrant buds of rank stink weed.\\nTwas breathing of this that stifled my song,\\nIt took all the brightness out of my life\\nThat glowed with art s lustre here on the mead.\\nEre the rapture was deaden d by the rank wrong\\nOf smelling the odor of foul stink weed.\\nMelancholy, sometimes, may act as a friend\\nImparting philosophy unto the mind\\nBut if we in fame and wealth hope to succeed\\nWe must from foul stramonium wend.\\nOr demoralised be, smelling stink weed.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "OUR AMElllCAX HASH. 13\\nTHE VICTOr OF SLOW DEATH.\\nNow, again to-day, I feel my soul is taking its sad way to Hadis\\nand this low condition of my spirits has been brought on by food more\\nor less improper for my bodily and mental strength no energy, no\\naction, but feeling my life gradually leaving my body and mind in the\\nmanner that some wardens have done in prisons to incarcerated victims\\nof put-up jobs of arrest, so that when in durance they must undergo\\nthe process of slow starvation, cruel torments of the shower-bath, the\\nlash, the thumb-screw, and the black-hole, till death relieves them from\\nthe torments of their official murderers, who sleek these prison murders\\nover with pleas of heart-disease, etc.\\nNow, are my living powers and earthly intelligence to be taken from\\nme in a similar manner here outside.? Am I a dupe of one or more\\nof these merciless prison, political thugs (in covert as yet) who may\\nbe now operating for, and conniving with some medical vampires, who\\nwant dead bodies to cut up inside of dissecting-rooms. It seems so\\nbut what have I done at Hashvijle, that must i\\\\eeds mark me out as a\\nvictim 0/ slow death, by surfeiting on Hash I ve done nothing wron\\nwhatever, to a living creature in the village. As the prisoner thinks\\nof acquittal before the trial commences, do let me go. True, chastise-\\nment follows the misdeed, but mine was simply a rash action at an\\nunguarded moment. Therefore, I still hope for a pardon. It is me\\nalone who suffers for the offence. For here I feel action, life, vital\\npower half gone toward the Earth, to be continued in some other form.\\nIt ain t right, its all wrong; and no prison, no asylum, no town, no\\nfamily, ought to be allowed to deprive the body of any human bein\\nof life-giving substance. For if practiced\\nOn me this would surely end the habit\\nHashmill feeders to importune\\nNo more my teeth help them to make a foitune\\nNot a tooth of mine, henceforth to slab it.\\nThe sole thought of Hashmill feeders.\\nWho gain the pious honor of renown,\\nOf being in select circles the leaders.\\nAnd the makers of the richest Hash in town.\\nI ve heard the Hash-victim at market and fair.\\nThrough colicy belchings mumbling the words\\nAh me O black despair O black despair\\nThus solemn his voice tones twanged on bilious chords.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nAbandoned to mirth I ve seen them so glad\\nWith their friends who were happy and joyous\\nBut, they never ate Hash to make them sad,\\nThey made Hash for the bilious and the pious.\\nThey were not prone to the languors of Hash\\nBy eating it, they only made it to sell\\nThe profits derived from the gross mash.\\nWas the cause of their joy, and made them feel well.\\nAt table they ask not if others desire\\nA more wholesome diet for breakfast or tea,\\nIt s always there for you to eat or admire,\\nThe hashiest of all Hash confectionery.\\nStringy and ropy, spread on the table,\\nlis brown hempen flavor may you invite,\\nA rope-walk to start, and there make a cable,\\nTwisting it, turning it round and round with all your might.\\nTo it, beef a la mode is a godsend.\\nWhen in a cheap restaurant you dine,\\nTho strong and tough, yet it may tend\\nTenderly to feel the stomach s gastric wine.\\nYour eyes may upon it look languishing,\\nThe cook may want to know why thus you gaze,\\nI m hungry say, but, I prefer quick famishing,\\nThan thro bilious fever let Hash end my days.\\nNot pleased with so agreeable a banquet\\nI from your table disappear,\\nI never more desire to see, nor let.\\nHash again induce me .to come here.\\nA NEW DECEPTION.\\nPerhaps, it s my usual luck to be by force of fate deceived.\\nThings, generally, measured out for me are small indeed.\\nTo me the world of human beings in their natures seem more false\\nihan true. They lie only to deceive. The principle of life is good,\\nbut the action of life tends to the bad, at least it seems so in very\\nmany instances, unmistakably apparent to my own illusive errors of\\nfelicity. For have I not here come in contact with a new deception\\nyes, like many another summer boarder with a hungry stomach,\\nwho like me has come here attracted by the beautifurin nature;", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n15\\nfine valleys and mountains, brooks and waterfalls, to be indigestably\\ntaken in by Hash. Intentions that are bad are the rude proofs of\\nlow cunning, and low cunning is the result of ignorance. Now, isn t\\nit sad to think, that here, too, the small mind having no limit to its\\navaricious thoughts, should abide beneath Heaven s pure light of\\nrighteousness shame upon that small mind whose thoughts corrupt\\nbut one of the heart s principles of a kind innate Divinity, honesty\\none to the other\\nTHE TENDER REPAST.\\nThis fine day will be fixed in my mind,\\nWhen away from here I may often recall\\nThe tender repast much easier to grind\\nThan tough Hash lumps causing teeth from gums to fall.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nOh the dear dish of my landlady s choice,\\nNow, I bear and hear its siftings so sweet,\\nMixing with the nectarous chiccory nice,\\nThis morning I guzzled at the Hash feast.\\nThere with the coffee. Hash has made a stew,\\nWhich now inviteth me the soup to taste.\\nIn this mouthful I cast out to view\\nThe tender mixture on the greeny waste.\\nHASH AND BRISTLES.\\nPerhaps, the people where I board take me for a pig if they do so,\\nit is the first time I ve been made aware that my appearance bears the\\nleast resemblance to the porky family what I a descendant from a\\nlong line of ancestral pigs, here with my nose rooting in the domain\\nfor ground nuts not at all I ignore this slur on my progenitors\\nthey may have been thieves, smugglers or pirates, but not pigs, as I\\ndon t bear the least trace of pig. But, if they were pigs, (just for exam-\\nple sake) they were socially mclined. Of this latter trait I must confess\\nmy own habits are characteristic, and I must say, too, very much ani-\\nmalized. For, have I not shown the greediness of the hog here lately,\\nby devouring several platefuls of Hash at one silting. Enough is the\\nword of the prudent; too small a phrase of the greedy. Surely, then,\\nthis ought to be a sufficient proof of making my piggish individuality\\ncomplete. Did I not take to Hash fondly So does a hog. There-\\nfore, my landlady does not couple calumny with Hash, if she takes me\\nfor a pig. But, on the other hand, does she rot insult the natirrals by\\nmaking no exception to her own hoggish opinion of me, in favor of man\\nWhy should she not give me the benefit of the doubt, if she is unde-\\ncided as to whether I m a pig s brother in human disguise wearing\\nthe apparel of bristless flesh No, tis not a sign suff, to fix my iden-\\ntity to the larded gentry. No, she might convince a mule that its\\nmother was an ass, but, she can t make me believe that three platefuls\\nof Hash, eaten greedily, makes of a man a hog. No, I will show her\\nwhen I come in from sketching that her gross nutriment of Hash has\\nnot wholly destroyed the sweet sentiment of friendship. I feel for my\\nfellow kind. Yes, although she may fear to hear the truth, more bee^\\nno Hash, better health.\\nFor meagre and dear the table,\\nThat alone feeds an artist on Hash\\nBetter make a Hash of the cook, if able,\\nFlaying her flesh with a cow-hide lash.\\nThus to take the worth of your money\\nOut on hide, is better than Hash\\nThe first makes you feel warm and sunnv.\\nThe last gives your pride and honor a smash.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. I7\\nWhat a changed individual I am, to be sure. Before I came here I\\nwas in sound, robust health, having all my faculties intact and bright;\\nbut, the light in my nature has retrograded, and I feel that my manly\\ndignity and honor are falling with my health s decadence -health, that\\nbrings joy, prosperity, pleasure. Yes, I feel myself but half animated,\\nreduced in spirit through the weakening process of Hash.\\nBASH AND HAIRS.\\nThe feed is a gross one, be it ever so well prepared;\\nAll its ingredients doth bile admit\\nIn it, I ve not only seen fat but hairs\\nTwisting affectionately round about it.\\nTis better to stay at a hotel in town.\\nThan to board at a house in the village,\\nTho the hotel s front be sombre and brown,\\nIts table is good for your stomach s equipage.\\nTil ere with no odors of Hash on the table.\\nNo one before it to bow with ceremony,\\nTo impress you with its properties able,\\nBoth to make you sick and take your money.\\nBit. should blind chance direct you to the village,\\nTo tiiid a house with tender food superb.\\nFresh vegetables of Earth s spring tillage,\\nChicken, rare beef, eggs, and salad herb.\\nAvoid a house embellished with white paint,\\nWhose cleanly whiteness may touch your vanity.\\nTherein dwells the puritan saint\\nWhose Hash may cause you quick insanity.\\nThere you will sigh and you w^ill murmur,\\nEvery time the table greets your eye.\\nAt seeing thereon, the fonl stomach disturber,\\nAnd doughy, half-baked, squashed-made pumpkin pies.\\nYou ll see the table laid out with a white cover,\\nTo impress you with the neatness of the female host.\\nWho ll serve you kindly, as she would a brother.\\nSumptuously with Hash made sparing of no cost.\\nExquisite, every meal you will see,\\nThe same excellent dish so pure.\\nPlaced nearest where you mny chance to be\\nWithin reach of its savory presence sure.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 OVR AMERICAN HASH.\\nAt first your jaws will give it vigorous munch,\\nAnd eating it, you ll say, how nice, how dear,\\nSix hours after you may give your chest a punch.\\nAnd say, good lord, what load have I got here\\nIt s the Hash you thought so agreeable.\\nWhile mixing it with chiccory and bread,\\nFor, you now find out it don t sit as amiable\\nOn your stomach, as when at first you were led\\nTo believe, while eating it so nicely pronounced\\nIt s so delicious thanks to its maker\\nIt s so elastic see it has almost bounced\\nOn to my plate from the fork of the Quaker\\nHER BOARDERS EAT HASH AND TALK BEEF.\\nWhere she gets so many boarders from, is a puzzle to me, and why\\nthey stay longer than a meal is still more perplexing, seeing that her\\nwicked desire is to get rich making Hash for doing which, remorse\\nof conscience may be hers. Then she will realize white hairs as well\\nas a fortune, that may be, after it is made, of no good to her, but only\\na pleasure to another. But I forgot, the hotels are overcrowded, and\\nthis must be the reason why they come here, from the want of accom-\\nmodation there. They are of many kinds in character, but of only two\\nsexes some wear an air of importance some have natural pride,\\nthough, these are not very numerous, because its a pride the presump-\\nptuous can t imitate. Certain plants can only grow in certain soils\\nso, the root of true pride can only germinate in a good heart. Hence,\\nthey are the sole ones here who make a point of not having their\\ndignity and self-respect corrupted by eating too much Hash some\\ntalk of social positions in towu, and little coteries of theii^ own forming.\\nThat they have been accustomed to the passing of plates of cake around,\\nin small and large quantities, at parties, is evidenced by the fact of\\npassing their plates to and fro to each other at table, and talking,\\nduring the efficacious interlude of waiting, for a duplicate plateful of\\nHash, and of other meats that were not discernible on the table beef,\\nfor instance.\\nYes, I noticed that they mostly addressed their remarks to beef\\nO health and happiness, derived from beef,\\nThou art the calm, joys of pleasurable sensations.\\nBeef was turned over frequently in word. It was done consmeraoiy m\\nthought. Now, whether a butcher s shop occupied their minds at the\\ntime, solely as a diversion from ihc contemplation of Hash, I don t\\nknow.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 19\\nHASH AND SMILES.\\nOne of the pleasures of this world is the sweets of society, and he\\nwho is capable of natural affection should fulfill his duties to society.\\nTo be a good father, a good son, a good husband, a good friend,\\nmakes one charitable to his kind, and generous to all his poor rela-\\ntions, helping them to Hash. In this capacity, as a waiter, I got many\\na smile, and many a thank, sitting as I did in their midst, and offici-\\nating as such, with plateful after plateful of the elegant Hash, so tempt-\\ningly offered to their delicate appetites.\\nThe Hash is very nice, this morning, sir, one said, with gas-\\ntronomical joy. Yes, replied another, accompanying the remark\\nwith an order for more of it. It s very fine, it s both meat and\\ndrink to- me and another one replied: Yes, sir, it s to me the\\nmost luscious of all food. Hearing this, some of the younger ladies\\nsmiled and the older motherly dames acquiesced in the savory com-\\npliment piid to Mr. Hash. He takes what others refuse. What a\\nsplendid appetite He devours it, and says not a word But I\\nnoticed their smiles were not loud ones. It was their table etiquette,\\nduring the gastronomical feast, to suppress all internal mirth from\\nbursting forth into loud laughs, as, it was the father of a large number\\nof grown-up daughters who made the remark of Hash being both food\\nand drink. Being a citizen of humble origin, and pretending to no\\npride of birth, he evidently knew the value of the timely encourage-\\nment, for had he not several prime mess feeders of his own that behooved\\nhim to shoe, to clothe, and to feed Certainly he had. Hence, it was\\nhis fatherly policy of domestic economy, to show them an example,\\nboth by wor-d and deed.\\nAlthough its parents are its masters, a child s education is often\\nacquired through its eyes they often degrade its character by wicked\\nexample, or elevate it by cuffs and kicks. Instead of telling it. what it\\nought not to know about Hash, they mould its moral and physical\\nnature with their hands and feet, so that it may have respect for those\\nin authority, and acquire a talent for doing everything that is mischiev-\\nous. Its reason and judgment having been thus strengthened, by paren-\\ntal tyranny, does not make the father a bit more great because he\\nsmiles upon the child he has cuffed and kicked.\\nMoral The less generous a father s own disposition, the more\\nmean the man is toward his own offspring. Here was a subject for\\nmeditation a father, whose age and life-long experience, had not\\ndiminished his love for Hash and progeuy the sex ttiat Providence\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0directs to keyholes females.\\nAs for myself, I was too polite and busy at the time serving them\\nwith Hash, as to hazard an opinion of its qualities. Silence counsels\\ncaution when woman is near. We must be discreet when she is nigh,\\nfor there is danger about and as the Hashmaker was within ear-shot\\nof where I sat, it was policy of mine to say nothing that might make\\nher think of me, and, thinking of me, cause her to frown and say\\nAs the envious use ridicule as a weapon of coniempi, put this plate-", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nOUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nful of Hash over your mouth for a poultice it will stop the music of\\nyour jaws. The ignorant think that making Hash, like chopping\\nsausage-meat, is a simple thing to do.\\nThus she might have talked to me, and tried to make a Hash cast of\\nmy face taking impressions of ones face in Hash, her way of punish-\\nment for being too generous with opinions of that which encourages\\ndyspepsia for pleasure often causes trouble, especially that of eating\\nand talking about Hash at breakfast table.\\nHowever, as suspicion is fear often groundless, we sometimes speak\\nthe most when we say the least in this, ere long, 1 shall be too much\\ninterested to mean well. When a nation wants a hero, it must produce\\na cause, and, as heroism is an offspring of some great event, 1 shall be\\nsmall man of big thoughts.\\nIf again, this evening,\\nTHE LADY KEEPER OF THE HASH HOUSE\\nft )k ^l\\nf M^ .:^v;\\ni m\\nShould want me at the table to preside,\\nI shall refuse the Hashy honor,\\nUnless, upon it there be other meat beside\\nSome smoked beef; some pound cake, and a pommer.\\nFar from such duties I shall take my leave\\nReserve the honor for a low Hash muncher\\nDine where instincts lead me to a beeve,\\nAnd of its joints shall be a greedy luncher.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 21\\nFor, less of her house would I know\\nMy noble home be hence in other parts\\nFor women who make Hash I hate, although,\\nI like their pretty features and their hearts.\\nGoing thence from there shall be my aim\\nShe has no home for me, nor yet aflfection\\nStaying there, gives her a sordid gain\\nToo dear for me her bilious confection.\\nShe may see me this evening at tea,\\nLook melancholy, shy, and curious\\nShe may wonder I don t eat the Hash, and see\\nMy back is up with it to make a muss.\\nBut, I don t care how savage she may there\\nAt my defiance present a bold frontage,\\nI ll obey the instinct of self-preservation where\\nShe may feel disposed my curly locks to tear.\\nBut, I ll see that she don t me surprise,\\nFor of vex d woman, I m a close observer\\nThe quick movement of her hand, I ll watch with eyes,\\nHolding the Hash-plate to give my head a curver.\\nTrue, the force of such cooking I d approve.\\nFighting for and against her noble Hash sublime,\\nBut, the first blow, I think, would cause me to move\\nFrom the seat she may reserve as mine.\\nAs fifes and drums set the feet marching, I suppose I could, by\\nplaying a jig on my own flute, dance mysetf out of this town, but I\\nwont do it, in spite of Hash and tough cow steaks. I ve paid for a\\nweek s board in advance, and if I don t derive much strength from the\\ninvestment, I shall, at least, gain some knowledge of a woman who is\\ntrying to get to the seat of fortune on the road of pleasure paved with\\nlumps of Hash.\\nI fancy, I can now see the landlady making more of it for tea this\\nevening. O thou savory dish of the morning meal time, again, you\\nmust be thanked for before, and with after blessings offered to thy\\nunctuous shrine Now, she knows that other viands could be chosen,\\nbut, she has the forethought of knowing that the disappearance of\\nthem at table would, while receiving the same grace, be apt to make\\nher boarders feel too cheerful, and, as pleasantry and gravity are not\\nakin, her Hash might lose its dolorous supremacy at the table,\\nand that soft. Christian suavity there of pure faith in the virtues of\\nHash, which some of her pious gluttons have shown, be somewhat\\nmarred in reputation were she even to neglect serving it to them warm,\\ncrisp and brown, if, but, for", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nA SINGLE MEAL.\\nSo, there again, Ell have no choice to make,\\nBetween fresh eggs, milk, mutton and beef,\\nAlone Ell see Hash on the table hath a place.\\nThe honor, too, of being there, which it can keep.\\nI hear she hath of conscience ne er a scruple\\nThis morn she at the table sat mute as a monk\\nVVhen to her Hash I gave a smile of ridicule.\\nHer thoughts seemed down in deep dejection sunk.\\nFor, isn t her Hash dealt out to us quite often\\nIn compounded scrapings Her meaty profession\\nGaining her profits from which, makes her a fortune\\nThrough the sufferings of our indigestion\\nKind, beneficent lady of savory Hashville So pious so etiquei-\\nical so economical so studious and observing evincing a wonder-\\nful knowledge of human nature Yes, she must surely know that we\\nof the city are apt to gourmandize on country fodder. Yea, she must\\nknow that man is an animal, a great devourer of meats, a being of strong,\\ninstinctive greediness, desires and rapacity, prone to murder his kind,\\nto kill fish, and eat flesh and fowl. She has seen the lively movement\\ncf man s lower jaw crunching tough cow steaks she has considered\\nthe consuming rapacity of those movements, and wondered how they\\ncould so long continue without fatigue. She knows with what energy\\neach one works that they gain new vigor, the more they are exercised.\\nShe knows what an appetite means what a boarder, taking a walk before\\nbreakfast, intends to do when he comes in. It has been shown so often\\nin her presence, that her allowance of Hash to each one can be par-\\ncelled out to a nicety. Ah me with what a joyous contemplation do\\nI look forward to the second course of Hash I know, Ell sleep as\\nhappy as a child, calm and tranquil, when narcotized with laudanum.\\nIf I do. Ell thank the hostess in the morning, for showing so much\\nwisdom in choosing a viand to soothe us men, who are inclined to\\nsavagery when fed on beef alone.\\nYes, yes, I ll take my nap, all in due silence, having no thought,\\nnor thinking then, of the cares and struggles of life. No, Ell then\\nhave no desiie to conspire with, nor commit treason. My loyalty to the\\nEmpress of Hashica will be that of a true and steadfast subject, while\\nhere, amid these beautiful surroundings of hill and valley, she reigns\\nover me, constant and loyal to her greasy dy-nasty. For, is it not a\\npleasure to serve under, and do one s duty faithfully in the state of life\\nhe occupies, to his Sovereign, or his Potentate, or his President, or\\nhis Governor, or his Mayor, or his Alderman, or his Employer.?\\nDoes she not govern the affairs of my internal state Is she not the\\nsole one who can drive out parasites from her realm, when their ex-", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n23\\npulsion is necessary for the peace of the subject, and her own sovereign\\ntranquility? Yes, this can my noble landlady do, employing her time\\nupon my appetite, with such grace and reason, adding the useful to the\\nornamental.\\nPART II.\\nHASH ON CHINAWARE PLATES.\\nSo, there again at town I did arrive,\\nTo eat fresh corn bread to my taste agreeable,\\nSweeten d with honey, just from the hive,\\nAnd not to feed on Hash placed on a pine-wood table.\\nThen the tea-time came, and I made an attack\\nOn a plateful of Hash she furnished smiling\\nThe Hash is fine, this evening, sir, tis free from fat,\\nTis made of beef, roasted rare, and boiling\\nThus again, she induced me to take the poison,\\nBy invite of its dry meaty scrapings\\nNow, I ve found out, that she knows how to lie some\\nAs well as mix up tough meaty leavings.\\nOh, I feel provoked a carnage to incite\\nAgainst her impressment of my noble self,\\nThrough Hash, which my appetite and purse invite,\\nBoth to take from me my appetite and pelf", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nWere it not for feelings tender and docile,\\nThat doth ni)- anger now restrain,\\n1 would tell her that she has no child\\nOn whom with Hash to afflict such pain.\\nBut, probably, just at this point,\\nHer indignation, if wrought up, would make her fight;\\nBut then, with my elbows squared thus at the joint,\\nHer flying plates of Hash I d ward off with my might.\\nWAITING ON THE LADIES.\\nWell, although the Hash has again proved unsatisfying, I have\\nmuch to be thankful for by looking at it from another point of view.\\nTo be elegant, one must be simple, and have natural tastes. He\\nshould make plain food the food of his stomach, and have plain people\\nfor friends, especially at a repast. Now, this must be the reason that\\nHash has been the cause of me taking so much interest in ihai family.\\nThey politely accorded 7}ie the favor of presiding at the head of the\\ntable, and I, as politely, returning the compliment, waited on their\\nappetites with several courses of that which relieves, feeds and satisfies,\\nnamely Hash. The two coquettes, in olive gowns, seem to have\\nprofited much by the occasion, aye, in two ways my free services\\nattending to their appetites, and the dexterous working of my own fork\\nin Hash, at which, their smiles seemed to have come from a source of\\ninnate pleasure.\\nWomen, as a general rule, are self-possessed when among strange\\npeople whose digestion serves them, to readily respond to the needs\\nof an appetite. Home life, being to them the principal study of their\\nexistence, is one reason why they feel so much ai heme under many\\na trying, social circumstance. This, I found lo be the case last night,\\nat tea, and this morning when sipping their chicory. Now, surely,\\ntheir amiable smiles to me could not have been the result of Hash.\\nLife s dear contact with living beings forms true friendship. It is the\\nglow of admiration that lasts shiningly bright, unaltered, to the end of\\nlife. W^as this the soul gleam of true feeling that shone there to me,\\nor merely a tenderness developed by the occasion of necessity To be\\nself-contained, one needs substantial food that will impart a piquancy\\nand brilliancy to the mind.\\nNow, how came it about, that the ladies mirthful faculties took a\\nsmiling latitude Surely, not from the nourishment of their food, for,\\non Hash, it is dangerous to satisfy an appetite, and smile. What,\\nthen, could have made them so amiable toward me Did love pre-\\nside where appetite ruled Women are controlled by indulgence they\\nopen their hearts when their stomachs are full of^of turkey, and this\\nshows no corrupt taste to be contented with ordinary things. Now,\\nif there had been any turkey on the table, they would then have had\\na good reason to smile, because there is a magnetism between turkey\\nand smiles. But, there was not even a wing of any kind to be seen on\\nthe table, whose presence might suggest /^w/, during all the time thir", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH\\n25\\nlips were showing me beautiful white teeth, chewingly engaged in the\\nservice of Hash.\\nBeneficent mess making the girls so joyous, and me with the fam-\\nily so intimate almost friends at once. How very little it requires\\nto make strange persons friendly Here I am a stranger, only one\\nday in town,\\nINVITED TO A PARTY\\nThat Is to take place To-night in the PARL WAR.\\nNow, I sigh to feel lighter from the repast,\\nI ve eaten with a ravenous appetite\\nThis sensation of fullness, no longer to last,\\nIt makes my blue coat and pants rather tight.\\nHow can I with pleasure dance at the ball\\nWhich invite to me was imperative\\nThis eve, from my partner, I surely shall fall,\\nFrom my stomach s weight of the Hash nutritive.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "OUH AMERICAN HASH.\\nEven if I walk through the cotillion,\\nThe exercise will be fatiguing\\nI m sure I ll feel as dumpy as a scullion,\\nAnd early from the party think of leaving.\\nAt twelve, they may call me in to supper,\\nBut, one eye only, on that, I shall have in view\\nIf they offer Hash to make me suffer,\\nI ll beg to be excused and ask for mutton stew.\\nFor, of Hash this day, I ve enough procured,\\nMade from the toughest meat of the season\\nHere, of its power and weight I m now assured\\nMy excuse, then, will be of ample reason.\\nThey may think I ve strange notions on the subject\\nOf Hash, made fresh there expressly for me\\nWho, at the hop, may be the sole hop]^c\\\\.,\\nThat mostly the fine guests desire to see.\\nFor, to make my acquaintance to-night is\\nA party expected to come in plain dress\\nHow stiff he is, they ll say, look, how tight is\\nHis collar, his pantaloons, and vest.", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 27\\nTwill be the Hash in my person they ll sight,\\nThough they ll think it the person himself so stiff,\\nWho, to them, will appear so proud and tight,\\nPutting on Hashitied airs with a stiff upper lip.\\nTheir hilarity may cause me inquietude,\\nFor they ll smile at the expansive consequence\\nOf my Hash dignity misunderstood.\\nTheir thoughtless reasons of it be void of sense.\\nBut, at the hop, before the midnight hour,\\nThey may all signs of this false dignity see\\nHath from its prideful height been muchly lowered,\\nTo their surprise and my then gayety.\\nHow lightly, then, my feet will trip the dance,\\nThe feet they thought so proud and lig\\nRequest me as a partner in a dance\\nFor the next waltz, a schottische, or a jig.\\nTheir timid counsel I must then obey,\\nAnd not be frightened if they sigh.\\nThat, through the dance s light fantastic way,\\nI can reduce the bulk of Hash, deliciously.\\nThus, again, may good come out of evil,\\nThrough the merit of a joyous party\\nAll happy, merry, jolly, amiable.\\nDigesting Hash with loud laughs heartily.\\nTHE PARTY AT HASHVILLE.\\nOh the gayety, the smile, and the happiness of everybody at that\\nparty. The occasion, the season, and the seasoning, I shall long\\nremember. A Senator, a Legislator, aye, even a Judge, partaking of\\na dry lunch at recess would think of it. A Bearer of dispatches,\\ndispatching sandwiches, would think of it. A Prince, cast away at sea,\\ntwenty nights and twenty days, without a meal, would think of it. A\\nbrown-stone-front Boarder, coming in late for tea and getting none,\\nwould think of it. I, myself, will think of it. It will be the sole idea\\nuppermost in my thoughts when, at a country resort, I may sit on a\\nhotel piazza, abstractedly looking at the far away mountains. Yes,\\nwhere er I may be in the world, I ll give the Hashy feast these thoughts:\\nthe gay time, the dance, the talk, the walks on the lawn in the moon-\\nlight. Yes, where er I may be, I shall see nothing but the banquet of\\nHash. From here, far away wandering about the earth, all my long\\njourneys will have with them the banquet of Hash as a reminder.\\nAye, even when grown old, I shall pass through in thought this piquant", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2epoch of rich Hash. Banquets were my ideal dream of youth, but this\\none is now my positive reahty, which fate (my unlucky star) has for\\nonce brought me here to charm me by setting aside all hungry sen-\\nsations with a pleasure o* ullness in my stomach heavily determined\\nto last. What an agreeable sensation it is What a joy maker\\nHere again making the alliance happy with convivial hearts hearts\\njoyous with meats so rare meat attracting my attention at supper\\nsavory meat so easily munched 1 There it was, as odorous as ever,\\non the delf-ware, my nose reminding me of its presence, even when I\\nwas talking to the ladies, with my back toward it. Such luxury, amid\\ngrace and smiles Such Hash elegance on delf-ware inviting the\\nguests assembled to devour it, which some did with avidity and with-\\nout premeditation Pleasure makes pleasure its the cord that vibrates\\nbetween hearts transmitting joy one to the other.\\nIs it meet, I said, to the younger coquette in the olive colored\\ngown, whose hands were holding the aliment, to practice Hash-talk\\nby recommending it to me and the other boarders Do you know\\nthat you are puffing the landlady s compound, thereby, making her\\nget rich at eight dollars a-week for full board, on a single dish whose\\nstomachic profit gives us the nett result of dyspe|isia\\nShe smiled, and said that I had no confidence in the feast most\\ntouching to the stomach. But such another smile would have destroyed\\nthe respect due to the sex that wears petticoats, or eflaced the distinc-\\ntion of blood existing between us.\\nNo, I replied, no one ever becomes honorable who eats Hash.\\nWhen a man becomes honorable through his stomach, it is the good\\nnourishment therein that makes his ideas flow easily and brilliantly as\\na result. Then, I instanced to her the cases of some Aldermen, how\\nthey went into office lean, and came out fat.\\nOh, its so interesting, Mr. Chromo, she replied, to be thus\\nentertained.\\nIs it right, I said, to have our mouths rendered useless, our\\nsense of taste for other viands blunted\\nHearing this, her response was reserved, but her mute answer said\\nto me no. I know the strongest passions are cured by indulgence\\none cannot speak from better experience, but, no doubt she was easily\\naff ected, and felt chagrined at my badinage about Hash but she soon\\nforgot the wound, and, being cured again, admitted me to her confi-\\ndence and attention.\\nRestrictive laws, I continued, which the country, all over, has\\ngot into the ridiculous habit of framing, mentions nothing of Hash,\\nwhich is dyspeptically eating its victims prematurely into early graves.\\nTherefore, be warned in time with a little prudence and forethought\\nyou can extricate yourself from its trammels.\\nIts a nourishment light and agreeable, Mr. Chromo, that people want,\\nand when taken with a coffee beverage of Mocha and Java purity, acts as\\na mild excitant for the brain and nerves after a deep drouse, she said.\\nI see you mingle your conversation with pleasantry. Miss Olive,\\nwhenever you find an opportunity of introducing a joke. Minced Hash\\nand liquid chicory as a mixture, are only fit for the inspection of a\\nhog s snout, I replied.\\nBut this is a country dish, sir, she replied, good humoredly a", "height": "3432", "width": "2066", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "OLR AMERICAN HASH. 31\\nsimple diet, suitable to the people living here, which ought to be its\\ndefense for being here.\\nI think so, I answered. It seems to be exactly what you state,\\nfor, ever since I ve been here the chief article of diet, that puts a sus-\\npense to the internal cravings of hunger, has been this most extraor-\\ndinary, delectable, chopped, lumpy stuffing for man and his stomach.\\nGive it action with thy lower jaw, a Quakeress said, who over-\\nheard me. But I silently looked at her, and was dumb. Here, where\\nher advice ended, the coquette s begun\\nMr. Chromo, accept this plate, she said tantalizingly,\\nNo, no, I said, let it there repose, calmly, sweetly, savory, if\\nyou don t want to fall out with me.\\nIts very nice, she said, putting it down before me. Here let\\nthe purity of my intentions serve me as an excuse.\\nNo, no. Miss Gingham, I respect your attention and politeness,\\nbut I must decline your invitation, curving myself over to her in an\\nobsequious bow. Aversion is the word that means and says No\\nI am satisfied with what I have eaten, my stomach has no room for an\\nmore of it.\\nIf it were a piece of roast beef offered to me by the kindly donor,\\nI would not hesitate; but the landlady s mind, it seems, has no meat\\nconsideration for us. There has been only a small chunk of unmixed\\nanimal viand on the table in two days, which, in its superlative degrees\\nof meat spare, sparer, sparest, soon disappeared.\\nYou must be proud, Mr. Chromo, said Olive Miss Gingliam.\\nProud I echoed.\\nYes, she answered, rather high toned in thus refusing a plate\\nof Hash on the night of a village_/^/^ day.\\nMe, so modest and retiring, accuse\\nOf pride, so foreign to my nature.\\nAnd not the Hash of gobling goose, whose use\\nGives one the meek appearance of a Quaker\\nPerhaps it would be well, had Hash the power,\\nOf largely distending my thick hide,\\nSo, their opinions of me they d not lower\\nWith w^ords to set my dignity aside.\\nThis menace to my stomach s credulity.\\nMight save me, p raps, from many dangers,\\nFrom others to my person which they d see\\nToo portly in bearing to take approach from strangers.\\nAll things here on Earth are well ordained\\nFor man s existence with the best of meats,\\nExcept the compound which I ve named\\nHash, the biggest of all meaty cheats", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nOUR AMERICAN II A Si:.\\nThat savory slush that first seduced my eyes\\nAnd nose with odors of deliciousness\\nMy throat, with appetizing neat surprise,\\nSurfeited once almost to greediness.\\nThe first course of the feast being over, the conversation, then\\nbegan about the weather, and other affairs of politics and fashions\\nbut, I observed that the pleasantry of the talk most agreeable among\\nthe assembled eaters present, near me, was turkey. Yes, turkey,\\nminus cranberry sauce, was the topic of their confabulation. What a\\nsplendid condiment, I thought, to digest Hash with. More astonish-\\ning still, the coquette. Miss Gingham, to whom I d been an attentive\\ncavalier, asked me if I too liked turkey.\\nAsk me not again. Miss Gingham, I said; like begets like,\\nand you ll make me fonder still if yon repeat the word turkey, which,\\nnow suggests to me the many appetizing morsels of the barn-yard fowl\\nI ve eaten in days gone by. Yes, I have for turkey every respect a\\nstraggling artist can have for the farmer s pet fowl. My teeth have\\nfrequently been occupied, paying it masticative attention.\\nShe smiled, and so did her mother, as the mention of turkey seemed\\nto have broken her silent reserve. Yes, she the mother of the Ging-\\nhams also took it to heart joyously, as it was an atfair of which she,\\ntoo, seemed to be pleased.\\nAs full as I am of Hash now, she said, I think I could find\\nroom for a slice of roast turkev.\\nOr a nice piece of venison, I said.\\nYes, the mother of the Ginghams replied, served up with cur-\\nrant jelly.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 33\\nThis urbanity to mouths so long accustomed to Hash, was, indeed,\\nrefreshing.\\nBoiled turkey, too, I said, was nice.\\nYes, Mr. Chromo, it is very nice with celery, they both replied\\ntogether as v/ith one voice.\\nYes, I answered, when the celery is fresh and crisp. I suppose,\\nMrs. Hashton (the landlady s name) gives her boarders celery some-\\ntimes.\\nYes, sometimes she does. Did you not see some of it on the\\ntable yesterday\\nI saw something that looked to me like a wilted bouquet in a\\nbottle.\\nThat was it, the Ginghams replied, as with one voice, getting up\\nfrom their seats, and showing an expansive condition, yawning and\\nbelching, as a consequence of eating too much of that which I know\\nis sure death to the spirits Hash.\\nTHE FLIRTATION.\\nThen, arm in arm, Miss Olive and I promenaded the piazza.\\nHow do you feel, Mr. Chromo. Aliss Olive asked.\\nDoes your speech consult my health or my hands I answered.\\nI won t tell you, she said if I were to reply, you would make\\nme out as being ignorant of polite literature, perhaps.\\nNot at all, Miss Olive women seldom reflect before they begin to\\ntalk; most of them have got the jabbereens.\\nWhat kind of stuff is jabbereens Mr. Chromo. Is it silk or vel-\\nvet.? Miss Gingham said, seemingly curious to know.\\nIt is neither silk nor velvet. It isn t a stuff at all.\\nThen what is it.? she said evasively, seeming not to take the\\nhint.\\nThe jabbereens is a constitutional tongue complaint which you\\nwomen have inherited from your foremothers.\\nI don t care, I shan t reply, she said.\\nThen, Miss Olive, I shall answer for you. The speech of the\\npolite, would have been how is your health, Mr. Chromo V How-\\never, I do not accuse you as wanting in thought not in this particular\\ninstance, at all events, Miss Olive, for your words may have slipped\\nfrom your tongue engendered so to do from the enthusiasm of your\\nfeelings having been stirred up by Hash.\\nMr. Chromo, I stand corrected, she said, somewhat piqued.\\nWell, Miss Olive, to curtail the long narrative, I am happy to\\nsay at this moment, that, although what we dislike in doing gives us\\nno pleasure, my health has so far, by good management, passed through\\nan ordeal of Hash but slightly hurt, and strange to say, from such a\\nweak support, I now feel as strong as Samson, as gentle as a child, and\\nas tender as an oyster.\\nHearing this. Miss Gingham looked at me awhile as if in doubt.\\nHaving measured me for veracity, with her eyes, she then said\\nI don t believe a word of it, Mr. Chromo.\\nAll right, I said, suspicion has no confidence hence you doubt", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "84 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nmy word. Who is that woman over yonder? I said, changing the\\nconversation.\\nWhere s your eyes. Miss Olive answered.\\nIn my head, 1 replied.\\nThat s my mother, was ]\\\\Iiss Olive s curt response.\\nDear me, 1 said, how soon large objects moving away from us,\\ndiminish in size. Where is she going to. Miss Olive I said.\\nYou are too curious, Mr. Chromo I won t tell you.\\nRemember those are avoided who never oblige.\\nI don t care, she said, to silly questions I never answer; you\\ncan see, if you are not blind, where ma is going.\\nTrue, increase of years, and a too constant use have somewhat\\nimpaired my keenness of vision, but the most serious defect to my eye-\\nsight has taken place here.\\nIn what manner.? Mr. Chromo.\\nLooking at Hash and women saying this, I felt a twitch at my\\ngoatee.\\nYou are too lively, IVIiss Olive, I said, a little less vim, if you\\nplease, and you ll show more of the angel. See, your mother is just\\ngoing into Mrs. Gabbletongue s house.\\nWe sleep there, Mr. Chromo, and take our meals here at Mrs.\\nHashton s.\\nOh, you do, do you that s news to me.\\nYes, ma is going to take a nap she told me awhile ago that she\\nfelt very drowsy, and that I must not let her oversleep herself, but to\\nwake her up, in case she should, when the meal-bell rings.\\nIt is no wonder, I answered, the sleepy and the lazy grow\\nfat\\nThere was another twitch at my goatee. Olive s deft fingers had\\npulled out three hairs. There were three hairs less in my goatee.\\nHash must have weakened their roots how otherwise could they have\\ncome out so easily three hairs less to be dyed, seeing which, pro-\\nvoked me to say: You make a too free use of your fingers, Miss\\nOlive. I place restrictions on such conduct. Miss Gabbletongue\\nwouldn t do that, she is more polite.\\nHow do you know, she wouldn t, Mr. Chromo\\nHer actions at the party the other night convinces me of that.\\nActions, you know, speaker louder than words.\\nHer ways may convince you, but they don t deceive me, Miss\\nGingham said, mine own eyes catching from hers a jealous look.\\nRivalry is the defect in the friendship of women.\\nOh, bye-the-bye, if not asking too much, what countr} man is\\nMiss Gabbletongue s mother.?\\nCountrywoman, you mean.\\nI stand corrected. Miss Gingham I forgot the wo. But so as not\\nto make another mistake, I ll put the question to you in another\\nform where is the land of her nativity.\\nWhere do you suppose it is? Mr. Chromo.\\nYou answer my question bv asking another. Who is saying this\\nyou or me? However, I ll repeat the geographical interrogation,\\nwhere did Mrs. Gabbletongue s blinkers first see the daylight?\\nYou ought to know, Mr. Chromo, for you told me yesterday that", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 37\\nyou could tell where a person was born and brought up, by hearing\\nthem talk.\\nDid I?\\nYou did.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Then I ve a poor memory for facts.\\nDon t you remember, Mrs. Gabbletongue was here yesterday at\\ntea and monopolized all the conversation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in other words that she did\\nall the tallcin*^\\nI do, right well. You and your mother were too full for utter-\\nance and remained silent. It is Mrs. Gabbletongue s talk that makes\\nme curious to know her better hence I put the question to you about\\nher place of birth.\\nWell, now give a guess, Mr. Chromo you are good at guessmg,\\nMiss Gingham said.\\nNasal Land, I replied.\\nNasal Land I never heard of that land before. In what part ot\\nthe world is it located.?\\nIn the New World.\\nThat s news tome, Mr. Chromo. I m pretty well posted m the\\ngeography of the New World, but I ve never heard of Nasal Land be-\\nfore? Perhaps its at the North Pole.?\\nTrue it hath a facial promontory, Miss Gingham, but not at the\\nNorth Pole.\\nHow is it bounded, Mr. Chromo?\\nIt is bounded by the Faceridge Mountains, Horn Bugle Bluff and\\nProboscis Point.\\nI m as much in the dark now as ever.\\nWell, Miss Gingham, I shall enlighten you at once. Listen. Nasal\\nLand is where the inhabitants murder the king s English with their\\nnoses.\\n6b, now I know where you mean, you facetious rogue\u00e2\u0080\u0094 you mean\\nNew England. t xr -r- i j\\nYes, Miss Gingham, you ve guessed it. I mean New England,\\nthe land of the Yankees\u00e2\u0080\u0094 those laddies who know on which side their\\nbread is buttered. t, j u\\nYou are good at guessing, Mr. Chromo. I ve heard ma say that\\nMrs. Gabblet\u00c2\u00b0ongue came from Down East; but Miss Hetty, her\\ndaughter, was born here in Hashville. She s a sweet girl, isn t she,\\nMr. Chromo.?\\nI esteem Miss Gabbletongue very highly. She s so quiet and re-\\nserved, hardly ever saying a word\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the direct opposite of her mother.\\nLike from like of kindred is not always assured as proof of this we\\nare witness of Miss Hetty s relationship and lack of resemblance to her\\nmother.\\nPerhaps you re in love with her, Mr. Chromo.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2True, while the wants of the body are many, the heart musn t\\nstarve it requires its natural food which is love. But it don t always\\nfollow that because we esteem a lady that we love her although esteem\\nand love toward the fair sex are very near akin.\\nHave you ever been in love, Mr. Chromo?\\nShe touches and I m fi.Ked, I said to myself; she is much better at\\npointing a joke than me. Does her question mean a bouquet, a pair", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nof gloves, a carriage, and perhaps a ring Yes, yes, now I see her arm\\nwas but a noose for marriage.\\nI once had some of that which you name, which, perhaps, you\\npossess, which you hope some day to give, but it fled from my heart a\\nlong, long time ago.\\nDid it last long, Mr. Chromo\\nNo, it served me but a short time only. It was, but it soon ceased\\nto be in my heart. It hath fled from thence, I hope, forever and\\na day.\\nAnd you ve never found one since then, I suppose, to take her\\nplace, Miss Gingham said.\\nWhen we search not, we find not. I ve never looked.\\nDidn t you feel hurt at the loss, IMr. Chromo\\nPut a fly in a spider s web and get it out without breaking it,\\nMiss Gingham.\\nThen your poor heart suffered some.\\nIt did the snail of sorrow crept in there.\\nWhat did you do to drown it.? asked Miss Gingham.\\nWhen things are not as they ought to be, we should try and mend\\nthem. I used to give it lager beer at a saloon kept by a German, who\\nslung his Dutch at me in chunks, Ein swei mit a pritzel and\\nwhen my keg got full I d go home to my lonely couch singing\\nHOP-LIGHT-LOO\\nHop-light-loo\\nThe Deutscher has drew,\\nMr. Chromo, Mr. Chromo,\\nMuch beer for you.\\nHop-light-loo\\nEin, swei, one, two,\\nFor Mr. Chromo, Mr. Chromo,\\nThe Deutscher has drew.\\nHop-light-loo\\nBeer will rue\\nMr. Chromo, INIr. Chromo,\\nMr. Chromo, you.\\nHop-light-too\\nAll the cats mew,\\nMr. Chromo, IMr. Chromo,\\nAt you, at you.\\nHop-light-loo\\nThere are few\\nMr. Chromo, Mr. Chromo,\\nMore drunk than you.\\nHop-light-loo\\nThis Won t do\\nMr. Chromo, INIr. Chromo,\\nMr. Chromo, for you.\\nI suppose that was an efl ective cure.\\nBy no means, it simply soothed my grief by putting me to sleep.\\nThen your grief must have taken deep root, Mr. Chromo.?\\nIt did. Miss Gingham it became deeply rooted, so much so,\\nthat, unlike superfluous hair, I couldn t pull it out with a pair of\\ntweezers.\\nBut you must have found a cure for it, Mr. Chromo. You seem\\nperfectly well enough now.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 39\\nHabits once formed, Miss Olive, are easily borne. I continued\\nthe hop cure and used to eat large slices of smoked beef mahogany.\\nThat s a strange diet to cure grief with, Mr. Chromo, 1 can hardly\\nbelieve you.\\nYou are too amiable, Miss Olive, to doubt my word. It s the\\nhonest truth; I cured myself with decoctions of hop and rosin, which,\\nto you, may seem surprising.\\nBut surely not to its merits alone, INIr. Chromo, do you owe your\\ncure.\\nNo I ll admit, I brought some mind to the case as well. As it\\nwas an affair of the heart, I would say to myself repeatedly, why be\\naffected at such a loss, the half of a bad bargain is too much do not\\nthink any more of her\\nOf her you fancied first, then loved, and now you don t, Miss\\nGingham, interrupting me, said laughing.\\nI suppose her heart-aches were equal to your own, Mr. Chromo.\\nFor the loss of you, how do you think she consoled herself?\\nI heard she drank pear juice, and became gentle.\\nWasn t she an amiable girl, Mr. Chromo\\nAmiability, Miss Gingham, is a scarce article. Your faith on that\\npoint need not be strong.\\nWell, what kind of a disposition had the girl any way, Mr.\\nChromo\\nIt was fair to middling sometimes good, but it could have been\\nbetter only she wouldn t let it.\\ni suppose this can be considered an infirmity more a trouble of\\nthe head than the heart a characteristic of the temperament known\\nas the animated the sanguine or red-haired.\\nINIiss Olive, let the description be thine, and the comparison mine.\\nDo you know a cucumber when you see it\\nI do, Mr. Chromo, perfectly well.\\nDo you know what a horse-radish is.?\\nI do.\\nWell, she wasn t like either of them she hadn t the cool sentiment\\nof the one, nor the inspiriting gayety of the other but what she did\\nhave, that partook more of the tiger than the lamb, was a temper as\\nhot as red pepper.\\nI suppose there were times when the girl was gentle and dear to\\nyou.\\nBut those times, Miss Olive, were only when she became a parior\\nornament, in the presence of a friend, or sat on the porch in the twilight,\\nlooking like a marble statue on a brown granite pedestal. Then, and\\nthen only, did I compare her in meekness to a dish that has often con-\\nsoled me a poached g^ on toast.\\nTis a pity to see a pretty girl show a quick temper, and judging\\nfrom what you state, hers wasn t mild.\\nNo, Miss Gingham, it wasn t mild, it was rather squally. It was\\nlike the Atlantic Ocean it had more storms than calms. One day a\\nsudden gust of it struck the top-gallant mast of our love barque, and\\ntore away the lanniards of all our love-knot vows.\\nThat was an awful catastrophe, Mr, Chromo. After the heart-\\nwreck I suppose you separated.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nWe did. Her spars floated one way, mine another but dropping\\nmetaphor, I have since then felt less inclined to love again.\\nNo doubt, Mr. Chromo, your poor heart has suffered a good deal.\\nIt s a wonder to me it isn t completely broken, leaving love a dead love\\nso long when there are so many other young ladies you know.\\nThe hook is baited, the line is cast, and I, the poor foolish fish am\\ncaught, for she s a skilfull angler, is Miss Olive. She knows the occa-\\nsion is the opportunity, and the year a leap one.\\nI see you don t or won t hear me, Mr. Chromo, said IMiss Ging-\\nham tauntingly.\\nBending my neck over in a 4-ply linen collar, and bowing my\\nknowledge-box to her, I said\\nMiss Olive you speak tq me on the wrong side\u00e2\u0080\u0094 my left ear is\\nstuffed.\\nWith cotton or wax, she replied mockingly, and smiling all over\\nher face.\\nWith neither, I answered, the tympanum of my left lug has\\nbecome swollen.\\nI m sorry to hear that, Mr. Chromo. I suppose you ve been sitting\\nsomewhere in a draught.?\\nNo, that isn t the cause.\\nWhat is it then, if you know it.? To know the cause is half the\\ncure, and you can be your own aurist.\\nBy moving away from the cause, eh\\nYes avoidance is all you require.\\nThen I will tell you, my good doctoress, my partial deafness\\ncomes from hearing much of women s tongue.\\nThere was another twitch at my goatee, and from that goatee she held\\nin her deft fingers three more hairs less to be dyed.\\nYou mocker, she said, lies every one of your words. Love\\nbetter and you ll be more confiding.\\nWell, Miss Olive, as disgust ends with the quarrel, believe half\\nof what I tell you, and you ll believe the truth I was only jesting. By\\ntheir songs I know their gentle dispositions. Women like to be heard,\\nto divulge no secrets, and obey what their hearts tell them to speak,\\nthey speak out, without hesitancy, all that they know. Don t they\\nYour opinion of my sex, ]\\\\Ir. Chromo, maybe correct.\\nYet, while they are frank, I notice that you are also candid with\\nyour speech as well as they.\\nEspecially when in love. Miss Olive.\\nI see\\nI see you do, without specs, I said, interrupting her.\\nMr. Chromo, I see\\nOf course you do, without green goggles, I said, like an op-\\ntician.\\nI see, Mr. Chromo placing her hand over my mouth I see\\nthat you see the girl that you love, Miss Olive said, taking her hand\\noff my Hash-trap.\\nThen love lies through beautiful eyes, I answered. You should\\nnever look at things that ought to go unperceived.\\nIs that so T Miss Gingham said, somewhat surprised.\\nIts enough for me to look at you and see not the least sign of", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 41\\nThat vou are fond of me no, no, not of me, Mr. Chromo, but of\\nrich dishes.\\nOh i this love enchantment amidst the torments of Hash, I said to\\nmyself. I should have shut my heart s doors to the one and refused\\nthe other an entrance to my gullet.\\nFond of rich dishes\\nOh, yes, sometimes, I said. But what is the use of being fond\\nof such dishes at this house My jaws haven t had any exercise on\\na joint of chicken since I ve been here not once even has the broth\\nof giblets decorated my shirt front.\\nDo you like Hash, Mr. Chromo.?\\nHearing this from fair lips made all my thoughts of other viands\\nvanish.\\nDo I like Hash.? No, no, I said, in the enthusiasm of my dis-\\ngust, excite me not with the apparition.\\nYou don t like Hash, Mr. Chromo Dear me, I m surprised\\nWhy, 1 think its the very nicest of dishes, Miss Olive Gingham\\nreplied.\\nNice, did you say.? Good lord how some people s tastes are\\nperverted\\nSacrifice of means is more favorable to one s pride than risk of losing\\nhealth and reputation in a Hash community therefore,\\nShun it, ere your nose, like mine, may become\\nReduced in sense by the odor of the mess,\\nBetter an egg or two, or, even some\\nHominy fried in hot fat, fizzing more or less.\\nGONE AS A CLOUD.\\nInterest is the golden figure in the arithmetic of love, when pride\\ncounts the numbers. When we show indifference to the welfare of\\nothers the kind who, for favors received, give us nothing in return\\nthey soon make preparations for departure hence, perhaps, this is why\\nthe end of Miss Gingham s sojourn here at Hashville has come. Our\\nmeeting was but an incident, and has terminated almost as soon as be-\\ngun. She must have found out that I was a depositor in a broken Hash\\nbank, that a receiver had been appointed to look over the books of the\\nnote-shaving shop, in search of assets, and that the result of his inspec-\\ntion brought to light only a few lumps of Hash, which the receiver\\nhimself gobbled up for his own services. Thus it is, a blow at fortune\\nknocks friendship down. Well, no matter he or she who choses\\nmuch will find very little of anything to please them. Miss Gingham s\\nlove for me wasn t of the durable kind known as the lasting, the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2constant no. She has gone away without saying Good-bye love, and\\nall that remains of substantial weight to remind me of her, is this one\\nbrown hair of hers here on my shoulder. One moment of success at\\nmaking love. Oh, it was too long a time for her, and short enough\\nfor me She liked me more than she loved me. But I forgot, when\\nexchanging tender sentiments with her,", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nThat he who thinks much of women\\nMust think much of gold\\nShe knew I had no riches\\nBoth her and her beauty to hold.\\nShe has gone away from me me who has more love than money.\\nAlas can I forget her No never She was always pressing me to\\nbelieve in her constancy and love. Now, never have I known a cir-\\ncumstance so black. Tis too much for one who desired not to live\\nalone and renounce all the charms of social life. Dream love of con-\\nstancy and faith Tis only in these the mind hath peace. Thou\\nhard-hearted woman But she is gone and left it difficult for me to\\ntell how many beautiful ideas she may have had of me. Woman s\\nmind is like a garden full of flowers and full of insects. I may have\\nbeen to her an insect, a small potato bug, surpassed by others of less\\nsize, who avowed all force to beauty, and too poor to win a girl whose\\nmind was fixed on wealth.\\nHowever, her going away has taught me that love and friendship are\\nonly in name. Then why should I be affected at her loss Dry up,\\nsalt tears, dry up Love is remarkable for its errors. To grieve for\\nher would show my heart more sensitive than my head is wise. She\\ndid not love me, she only lib\u00c2\u00a9d me this shows that she is, and always\\nwill be, a coquette. What a coquette constant, amiable, sweet\\nGood lord Fate recommend me not to one less than ninety years\\nold. As time is eternal, she may live to eternity s doom, which means\\nalways. No less success and more hope. No, I shall never trust\\nhope again he promises, but seldom pays. She has gone away.\\nWell, he who fears to follow where danger leads, has discretion for a\\nfriend. That love, so frivolous, allows me yet to live as a freeman\\nTo walk in the light of the sun, and not be in love, is a boon.\\nTrue, she gave me some encouragement, but very little each time.\\nShe was so careful of it, although the little I got from her gave me\\npleasure and it gave me pain. However, I ve given to her my last\\nsigh I now realize my situation. It was critical.\\nThe beautiful and ugly make a contrast. Miss Gingnam was a daugh-\\nter who had a mother a daughter that might soon be a widow. The\\nmost beautiful of two things is the one you like best hence, the dan-\\nger to ym happiness lay through the daughter. One likes much when\\nhe loves much I didn t like Mrs. Gingham, for I knew in her I d find\\nenough of self-will to make short work of peace. Living on credit\\nmakes ones pleasure accord not with his means. Mrs. Gingham\\nowed Mrs. Hashton for a month s board. This made it more agree-\\nable for me to refuse her daughter with a silent tongue than with\\nmoney to buy her silk stuffs. I, the husband to the daughter she,\\nthe mother to her children, married or single; my wife, the sister\\nof her brothers all come to establish themselves in my e^ .ablish-\\nment all come to dine with me on Hash and horse. Of tthese\\nI would give them a surfeit, so that they would not care to come to my\\nhouse again for a long time for that which is common, they would\\nnot like, especially the mother, whose near approach would mean dan-\\nger to my domestic peace. But, if she d come there the second time,", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n43\\nI would not forget my duty as a married man I d place her figure-\\nhead over my front door with these words beneath: This is my\\nmother-in-law, a social sphinx whose custom it is to come here in spite\\nof no invitation. She is positive in her lessons to her daughter, and\\nmuch given to correct my early neglected education with chairs and\\nbroomsticks.\\nMoral Unworthy relations, if you indulge them, think they never\\nget enough, whereas the poor, worthy unrelated, will thank you kindly\\nfor half as much.\\nSo much for caprice, mothers-in-law, and Hash. Remove Hash,\\nmothers-in-law, and quarrels, from marriage, then I ll wed. O my\\nheart thou art a widower the third time 1 I know I ll be much hap-\\npier happy as a bird still free to fly from Mrs. Gingham, whom, to\\naccept as my mother-in-law, would require more resolution than I ve\\ngot.\\nMoral The things that you regard, see that they are necessities and\\nnot merely whims of the desires. Mrs. Gingham wasn t a neces-\\nsity. When we cease to desire, we become contented I am contented\\nwithout Miss Gingham.\\nA ROMPING MOLL.\\nOh, you may laugh with more of scorn than sorrow,\\nThat I look back on hapless love\\nTho tearless thine eye, a tear yet you may borrow\\nFrom me you laughingly reprove.\\nBecause I love, then wasted on an idol,\\nA dear delusion that now lifts my voice\\nTo her I censure as a Romping Moll,\\nAttracting beaux with ways not over nice.\\nSmiling at every fop that met thy looks.\\nWhere was the sense shown doing that\\nMaxims for it are not in good books,\\nBut matter it gives to gossips who chat.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nOLR AMERICAN HASH.\\nShe loved me but to despise me,.\\nThe she showed no hatred in her face,\\nFrom me her glances roamed wayward and free\\nTo others what an awful disgrace\\nI suppose you don t like to hear this confessed\\nSoon you may say farewell to me again\\nWell, you may blush at what I ve expressed,\\nI call it not love what I now blame.\\nHearts, when in love, may lose their sweetness\\nEven here in the country where you reside\\nLost affection from mine, gone with excess,\\nAs wealth leaves the rich on paths of lavish pride.\\nWhat do you for that lost love hope to find\\nIn me so luckless with love and honor gone\\nTo one as fair in form but fairer in mind,\\nWhom unlike you hath fickleness none\\nUpon a fair morn, before the season ends,\\nI hope to lead the fair one to the altar,\\nShe s got from me the bridal kiss that tends\\nThat sweet hymenal way with no fear nor falter.\\nNow my tongue, discursive of this purpose,\\nMakes the jealous thought across thy mind flash.\\nBe calm, though, don t your sweet temper expose,\\nYou d like to give thy rival s eye-window a smash.\\nBut you may rail at her beauty in vain\\nToo long have I here a sojourner been,\\nFriendless, hoping thy affection to gain,\\nj^ But no more for thee waiting, not being so green.\\nx^i\u00c2\u00bb:^r/iV ^5^^/r _.\u00c2\u00ab_", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "OUlI AMi::UliJAN HASH. 45\\nPART III.\\nADVICE,\\nTo the meaty evil be a stranger,\\nWhere er yon go to keep health out of danger.\\nAs there is in the world the good and the bad, it is indispensable, for\\nyour own happiness and security from disease, to be on your guard,\\nso as to lose neither your means nor self-respect by contact with the\\nevil disposed. Where vice abounds, we need not look for virtue.\\nFrom the good you have nothing to fear. Rather live alone than with,\\nthe wicked move. To be sweet you must be amiable, and he or she\\nwho wishes to be amiable, must avoid Hash. If you know how to-\\nresist temptation you hold the secret of succeeding, but if you are\\ntimid, your resolution will fail at the beginning, for the heart is weak,\\nso says the mouth, when the nose smells Hash.\\nNow, to those who, from long custom, have a strong desire for the\\nnourishment, and can t break it off abruptly, I would advise them to-\\ndiminish the quantity each meal by taking less of it. If the supply\\nhas been three platefuls each time, reduce the number to two but,\\nshould you feel inclined to send for the third one,\\nDo not even a single morsel of it choose.\\nIf you perceive it on the table spread\\nThere untouched, uneaten, let it lose\\nAll contact with your fork, your mouth and breath.\\nTo know that which is, is the best of knowledge learn the nature\\nof Hash, the more you learn of it, the more you ll wonder how it\\ncould be the means of giving pleasure.\\nBrood some minutes over it in thought, as if trying to solve the\\nproblem in Euclid, then, get up, and give it no thought till the next\\nday, when you sit down at table where you are wont to sit there, let\\none plateful be your generous quantity for he talks well who exclaims,\\nNo more for me the less of this the better what Tve eaten will last\\nme till I get married but should the force of habit overome your\\nresolution to restrain its further indulgence, come to the table last, you\\nmay gain by waiting, it will learn you patience, and that is a trait of\\ncharacter worth having. To lose a plateful of Hash, by waiting, will\\nbe your gain in health. Also, think of the association for cwrtailing\\nthe existence of the canine race, doing which the Hash-eater may be\\nhimself again you will have taken a worthy course, and the act of\\nfreeing yourself from its trammels will be approved by many of those\\nwho have themselves been released from the serfdom of Hash the\\nTempter,", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 OUR AMERICAN HASH\\nI know at first twill be inciting\\nA keen appetite to satisfy,\\nBut, this the danger is that needs fighting\\nWith calm resistance of indilTerent eyes.\\nYour landlady may think you are interfering with the most precious\\nof her privileges, and perhaps, with angry looks and speech, she may\\ntry to intimidate you against the innovaiion of her Hashified rights,\\nbut you must be firm, as it will be much better for you to destroy it\\nthan to let the habit of Hash feeding destroy you. Yes, the danger is\\nto be near it. He kills old Colicy who murders Hash. Stab it stab\\nit for, as it is\\nA SEDUCTIVE MEATY COMPOUND,\\nTake of it but a plateful and you ll be undone\\nYou ll eating of it say, I ll have another;\\nUpon my word, its nice, here Hetty run,\\nAnd on this plate put Hash s brother.\\nThus, in your greed, you ll double the amount\\nOf food you ask not from nor how made\\nY our jaws will move too fast its lumps to count\\nA particle to lose you ll be afraid.\\nNext day, however, you ll abate your rage\\nFor Hash that on the table looks so tempting,\\nOf the many ills it doth presage\\nOf indigestion s pains, colicy and griping.\\nOne virtue thus it hath to make you wise,\\nThro gastric pains making thy bowels sufTer,\\nAnd making you say what a big thing, for its size,\\nIs Hash, to make a glutton turn philosopher\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2One benefit, thus from evil is derived\\nA meaty evil that should be a stranger\\nAt tables where we do not wish to be deprived\\nOf health, but where we go to keep health out of danger.\\nIt may be though, at summer resorts\\nInland and on the borders of salt seas,\\nThat Hash is made for the many sorts\\nOf people whose eating tastes are hard to please.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "OLE AMERICAN HASH. 4tl\\nHence, ihey take much interest in the work\\nOf making it so savory and so neat,\\nSeemingly to invite your knife and fork\\nFreely into the mixture of chopp d meat.\\nThere you go hoping to be nourished\\nYou leave town, weak and languishing;\\nYou go where the makers of Hash have flourished\\nUnchanged, you return home nigh famishing\\nFrom the country with loss of health and means\\nIn you the Hash has taken a deep interest\\nHe or she has filled your pouch with Hash or beans\\nFour times a week, beans and Hash was the repast.\\nHe, or she, will ask you to call again next June,\\nIf your health and means will you enable\\nHe, -or she, may say, Be sure and come up soon,\\nI ll keep a place reserved for you at table.\\nYou can t get board anywhere better than I give\\nMy savory Hash, you know, is made first class\\nIts just the fodder to make you live,\\nTo make you love, to make you kiss the country lass.\\nWho makes it for me Ah! Hetty s the girl\\nThe best servant that ever stript an arm,\\nTo make your head and stomach whirl,\\nCooking the products of the roost, the farm and barn.\\nHASH AND BEEF COMPARED.\\nIsn t it a shame to impose on the stomach with Hash What kind\\nof ideas can one expect from eating Hash as compared to the regimen\\nof juicy joints Analyze them separately, and you will soon find out\\nthe difference in the life-giving properties of each one. The effect of\\none is to strengthen us, and make us fight in the battle of life, victori-\\nously overcoming every obstacle of the strife through ambitious action\\nwhich it imparts to the nervous and muscular structures of man s frame.\\nNor have the most brilliant and the most beautiful been fed on Hash.\\nExamine the results of the beef-fed and the Hash-stuffed. Mothers\\nof families may give Hash and slop diet to youth, but men and women\\nneed beef. Notice the dullness of the one and the liveliness of the\\nother. Listen to the beef consumer s thoughts how high they soar\\nyou are convinced at once, that his ideas of things, in general, would\\nmake of him a minister of state, and in his hilarity of good spirits, while\\nofficiating in the capacity as such, to propose by telegraph, conundrums", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nOUR AMERICAN HASH.\\non flesh to his Majesty of the Cannibal Islands, who might say in\\nresponse Ah me likee human flesh me is so fontl ob de flesh ob\\nde beefy Englishman me no likee de American Hash man, he am\\ntoo tough he am made ob de Texas gumjer rubber bull he am all\\nbone, hoof and hide. But de most tender ob all de men me likee de\\nbest, when roasted, am one ob de fellahs dat come here to make de\\npictures.\\nDelicious eating for to give a zest\\nTo royal jaws upon a roasted artist,\\nAnd yet to make the offering appear best,\\nDanced round to tunes twanged by a native harpist.\\nHASH, ART AND GENIUS.\\nNever, until I came here, two weeks ago, did I appreciate my pictorial\\nefforts at art. The results would make an amateur laugh nothing fine,\\nnothing brilliant, in short, nothing high nor grand in effect. Devotion\\ngenerous to a noble soul, too skilful to be perfect, too great to be ap-\\npreciated, knowing all about art, and receiving my reward in Hash", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "f", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 51\\nneglect. Two weeks gone and nothing acquired my art abused\\nmy time lost, all through the succulent regimen of Hash. What\\nart, genius, respond to such a diet No no iis a mistake to think\\nso the real energy for which depends on the nature of the mind. Is\\nHash the aliment needed for its wanted vigor.? No. The impulse of\\ngenius is of too sensitive a quality to vibrate the world s heart on\\nHash its temperament is too energetic, too spontaneous to produce\\nthought at the obedience of Hash. Animated natures only can write\\ngreat poems, those unique productions that give the world an educa-\\ntion. Its a marvel how they come by such merits, surely not from\\nHash. No Hash makes one s innate personality indifferent, ordinary,\\ndull. It turns the inherent bent of his nature so much, that the born\\npoet, or artist, becomes a barber, a shoemaker, or a politician. It\\nwouldn t be strange, if I myself should one day be occupied at some\\nmenial drudgery for a living for, my excessive eccentricities variously\\ninclined, being stimulated by the use of Hash, may direct me many\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ways to an avocation insignificantly, insufficiently small of income.\\nThis would, indeed, humiliate the being that during its infancy was\\nkindly nurtured by its mother s sister, and instructed by its father, to\\nfollow the strengthening ways of beef Mr. Beef, with thy permission,\\nI shall, in future, place myself under thy nourishing care, for the style\\nof my sketches, and the finish of my water-color drawings, will depend\\na good deal on the strengthening impulse you may give me. How\\notherwise could mortal artist ever be immortal master of his art May\\nFate punish those who say it can be done with Hash.\\nFor things that mostly please us, we like to pay\\nIn money or affections dear extreme.\\nOf heartfelt gratitude that may\\nCause Hash and Love to be thy future theme.\\nIn thy sonnets improvised to Hash Cooks,\\nWhose meat may cause thee tenderly to give\\nThy love to them in versifying books\\nTheir Hash forever in thv verse to live.\\nYou may thy happmess express in verse.\\nThat Hash, thy crown of glory and of pride,\\n,T Acting on a single epigastric nerve,\\nDrew the Hash Cook fondly to thy side.\\nTogether through the march of time to strav,\\nHash making both thy income and her fortune\\nWhich others greedily, through their appetites may,\\nPile up for you at breakfast, tea and luncheon.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 OJjR AMERICAN JIA^JL\\nLAWS FOR HASH MAKERS.\\nAssemblies ought to convene and deliberate on the weighty sub-\\nstance which is fast becoming the town-talk and scandal of the whole\\ncountry. It is useless as a blood maker, and positively injurious to\\nthe stomach, the diaphragm and the ducts absorbent, consequently\\nthe makers of it should lose their positions in society they are danger-\\nous to it. They abide among the purest blooded of your race, corrupt-\\ning it by inducing the confiding to form attachments for it. The Hash-\\nghoul may not seem presumptuous, as they wear an air of humility,\\nand are much prone to religion. Now let this explain if you are not.\\nrelated to wisdom, the society ghoul will operate on the gentleness of\\nyour nature with plenty of Hash, and laugh in her meek sleeve at you\\nfor letting her do it, although you may speak in lumpy words of Hash\\nof your modestv being wounded. Hence, the necessity of passing\\nstringent laws that will make it rare to be seen on any table.\\nMany of those in authority who have sniffed up the savory unction\\nduring receptions and entertainments, ought to, in return for which,\\nentertain the Hash question in their chambers and at their meetings.\\nA committee should be appointed to investigate the monstrous thing,\\nto take hold of it by the word, and fine all those who deal in the deli-\\ncious appetite seducer. Just fancy us, the boarders and diners out,\\ngiving Hash sellers the privilege of provoking dyspepsia Tis really-\\nserious, a grave error to let the makers of Hash go unpunished.\\nWe make a free use of the law-making power, then why not operate\\nagainst their free action of manufacturing Hash Where the measure\\nis rigidly enforced, and the Hash is vigorous in smell. Hash restraint is\\npossible. There should be no compromise with the vice, no com-\\npounding, no blackmailing fees received, no points of law made eva-\\nsive, nor privileges permissible, but a complete suppression of the\\nabominable substance. There are societies for the suppression of\\nvice, societies against cruelty to animals, societies for the suppression\\nof free action and free thought, societies against free practice in the\\nmedical art, which latter effecting to legislate for and control that which\\nthey never discovered, desire to do all the experimenting themselves,\\nespecially for fees. Now, I would advise the advicers to direct their\\nattention to something they can claim as original and found a college\\nfor its expulsion from man s table, as an unfit article of diet namely,\\nHash. The idea is original with me, it is mine own, but I give my\\nadvice to the advicers free of charge. It will somewhat tend to lessen\\nthe frequency of their visits, and consequentlv, the amount of their\\nfees, by preventing a good deal of bilious sickness none but the penu-\\nrious of the profession will find fi\\\\ult with me for this last suggestion.\\nMy rule is, no cure no pay. Their rule is, cure or no cure you must\\npay. Thus can we judge the man by his work and action.\\nAs too many obey the amhoritv of evil, although evil is ihe dark\\ncontrast to the bright side of life, as night is to dav, I would make it\\nmy duty to mend the morals of the community, hoping by doing so, tO\\nget support from the bad as well as the good. Now, the most happy\\nare those who are the most moral, and to be moral vou must neither", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n53\\nsmell, read, hear, nor see anything that is awful or vulgar. For the\\ndanger lies in the practice, and Custom gives her victims lessons they\\nwant to repeat over and over again, for it is not easy to resist the temp-\\ntation for that which satisfies. So, as my interests would lie in the\\ndirection where my efforts in the moral business mostly called me, to\\nkeep Hash out of the mouths of the bad, and to restrain its name as\\na demoralizing means of wickedness in print, I would try to get the\\nword Hash made an obscene one, by an adroitly phrased bill of attain-\\nder, surreptitiously shoved through the Senate. This being accom-\\nplished, I would then conspire with others. I would put up a job\\nagainst some one engaged in the Hash business. With a view to break\\nup the traffic, I would write to some manufacturer of it in a disguised\\nhand (or get another hand to write), and request the person to write\\nthe word //ask and send it to me. Then with the profane word. Hash,\\nwhich I, the arch-conspirator, got another to write, I would menace\\nprosecution to the writer, if he or she did not come down handsomely\\nwith a big consideration for black mail. The levy of hush not forth-\\ncoming, I would go and see the judge before the trial came off, and\\nsee if I couldn t fix the working of the prosecution to my own liking\\nbut I wouldn t tell him how I had on the faith and confidence of\\nthe dupe operated, nor how I had formed, with shysters, and detectives,\\nan adroit, infamous conspiracy to levy black mail. The news, by the\\nmouth, would be clear enough to those of clean consciences, but it\\nisn t so easily proved as the written word Hash. That would be\\nprima facie. That one indecent word Hash would be all-sufficient\\nwith which to make out a cause cekbre. Thus it is, the dark light\\noften serves those who in the bright light, appear to want it not.\\nOLD FLY BLISTER,\\nPresident of the Society for the Suppression of Hash", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nOUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nPART IV.\\nHASH, THE POET S ENEI\\\\IY.\\nNo, no, bid me ne er again on vile Hash dine,\\nNor it devour at breakfast nor at supper\\nMay dead my sense of smell be at the time\\nMy nose ne er lead me thus again to sufifer.\\nLong member, up to sniff refreshing smells,\\nFor once you ve me enticed with odor\\nOf heavy Hash that makes my stomach swell,\\nMy head and body be now dull all over.\\nUnthinking nose and sightless eyes, what use\\nArt thou, that cannot smell nor see\\nFit substances that cause no bad abuse\\nOf my stomach s frail machinery\\nWhere you re up above my sense of taste,\\nTo watch the food that I may introduce\\nInto the eating saloon of my face,\\nThy vigilance on Hash doth seem of little use.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 65\\nNext time on that, one eye without a nose\\nTo warn me of its presence, you will find,\\nIf near my sense of touch, alone with toes\\nIn boots I ll scatter vile Hash to the winds.\\nV\\nThou thoughtless nose to introduce m- to it,\\nMy taste to feed with mixture almost certain\\nTo make of me, from eating it, a subject\\nStretched soon beneath the green earth s curtain I\\nBut I d much rather you d live in my verse\\nThan in my gastronomical inside\\nOur fondness for each other have reverse\\nOf position, from me. yes, far and wide.\\nScattered about the universe,\\nThy famous nourishment be known\\nTo others, forever in immortal verse,\\nHow all at once you fond of me had grown.\\nWhat a grand treat it would be thus reading,\\nHow thy rare properties could poems inspire\\nThis tho would be sweeter far than on thee feeding\\nThe eaters of thee swear and call the poet a liar.\\nWho, then, would come with laurel wreath to crown\\nThe poet who had lied of thee in metre\\nCurses I might get in place of a renown,\\nAnd for you, I m sure their words would be no sweeter.\\nNo, not now shall I thy name indite.\\nThou most luscious of all meats divine\\nElse you may get me into a wordy fight\\nWith critics who might pitch into my rhyme\\nInstead of you, their censure to arouse\\nAgainst the language of this my poem.\\nHow I so long on you could thus carouse.\\nBlaming, yet muchly fonder of you growing!\\nUsing thy name in verse with such impudence\\nTelling what effects on me from thee occurr d I\\nHow Hash thro the mouth made my head a dunce\\nWhen no more in words thy name should be heard", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "B^ OhR AMERICAN HASH.\\nWandering in my verse throughout the world,\\nThy name, O Hash in eulogy well sung,\\nFor merits to make thy eaters hair curl.\\nThose hairs to thee humbly down to be hung.\\nMy verse may be, to many, a useful lesson,\\nNot readily to eat of thy gross feed\\nFor this warning I may get a blessing;\\nThe dignity of Judge to me decreed.\\nMy right, I feel is almost certain,\\nSpoken of, applauded in advance\\nFor the good work of lifting up the curtain\\nFrom thee, vile Hash, who make dyspeptics dance\\nWith stomach aches they bear with courage.\\nWhen thro their mouths you rouse their dignity\\nOf speech loud with groans of mental worrage.\\nExpressly alone vouchsafed to thee.\\nFor it is certain that two meals a day\\nOf Hash on the stomach are quite too many,\\nAs in a week s time from sufferings you may\\nNot know, that in life, you ever lived any.\\nHASH AND LIFE INSURANCE.\\nI WOULD advise those who eat Hash not to hesitate but go at once\\nand gpt their lives insured. Fancy the anguish of a family deprived ot\\nthe means to live by a father who ate Hash and neglected to get his\\nlife insured! The Hash-eater who intends to avail himselt ot the\\nearthly boon of family independence, after the breath of life leaves him\\nshould not put the time off till the last moment. Hesitation, in such\\nan important matter, should not be one of your maxirns. 1 hat should\\nbe understood onlv when vou have a bill to pay, for he comes slowly\\nforward who is not disposed. Now, I repeat it, and say it louder,\\nhence, ye Hash-feeders, go instantly to a life insurance company, ere\\nthe seeds of Hashdevelope themselves, which, in itself, would be a good\\nand sufficient reason for them to refuse you. This would be discour-\\naging, for then your children, or vour widow, would receive no allow-\\nance when thou art gone from their gaze. It ought to strike you that\\nthe facilities now offered to effect a security, and to make your mind\\ntranquil as to their after welfare, are abundantly numerous. 1 he\\nrules generally adopted may serve to put you through an exaniina-\\ntion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 your age and physical frame. A thump or two on the chest,\\nmay suffice to pass you as prime but should they, during the exami-\\nnation, find ou!. that you eat Hash, vou will most assuredly be refused\\nas objectionable. For those who subsist on such fare, have a long death", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 57\\nand a short life. You will be looked upon as a family confidence\\ndodger, a Hash fraud, solely disposed to operate on their capital, and\\nthat not much of your capital, in the way of premiums, shall go toward\\nthe company s own dividendc. You therefore see, O Hash consumer,\\nhow important the reason and forethought required to augment your\\ncapital in small sums applied to increase the capital of the company,\\nas the sums due to them yearly may accrue to you as dearly when the\\nunfortunate day arrives that the widow leaves her dead spouse to\\nmoulder away in the cemetery.\\nNow, Mr. Hash-feeder, do believe and learn from me, that thy sojourn\\nhere on earth is brief that Hash will soon cancel your engagement\\non life s stage. Therefore, be wise in time and get your life insured,\\nif you can. The company may rate you as prime, but your own\\nopinion may be reserved on their decision. Tis their affair to find\\nout, and not thine, the number of years through which you may sur-\\nvive the ordeal of Hash. The ignorant take chances in lotteries\\nintending to win in hazards they expect to make fortunes. You\\nwill know, in advance, the sacrifices to make. You know the number\\nof payments you will make until the last premium be paid. You know\\nwhen your widow shall come in possession of your money again with\\ncompound interest accrued. This, O Hash devourer, ought to con-\\nvince you how convenient it is to exist awhile for the benefit of others\\nhow gratifying to be assured that you can, with an independent step,\\nwalk in nature with two hands in your pockets one each side of your\\ntrouserloons.\\nHaving past an examination with the choice mark of prime affixed\\nto your Hashified frame, the company will take your money. Then\\nbeing contented and happy with yourself, go home and approach your\\nwife with a self-satisfied air. Tell her how you accomplished a big thing\\nthe insurance of your life for the benefit of her and your sorrowing\\nfamily. Then discuss with her the advisability of increasing your daily\\nallowance of Hash. That you have made a valuable contract with an\\nestablishment that receives small sums from Hash-feeders to invest\\nthem in government stock, real estate, speculative enterprises, big\\nbuilding for the company, big salaries, all for the payees benefit for\\nthe liberality, as shown by some of these institutions, is indeed wonder-\\nful. The amount of Christian charity developed by life assurance com-\\npanies who build with Hash, and operate with cash, is, indeed, amazing\\nin these speculative times.\\nBut if your wife should object to this method of investing your capi-\\ntal to augment the capital of the company, perhaps it will be because\\nshe does not understand how to put money out at a fair paying rate of\\ninterest. She may be a sincere Christian, and regard these companies\\nsimply as speculators on human life, with about as much humanitarian\\nsympathy and charitable feeling for the people generally, as those who\\nspeculate. in beef, pork and flour. These views of the matter, from\\nthe heart s pure source, whence her sentiments of maternal faith and\\nforethought abiding with her as a good wife and mother, may affec-\\ntionately incline her to say: No, my dear, no better that Hash\\nbe banished from our table, and consequently thy life be prolonged,\\nthan by using it, bring about a diminution of your own means\\nto increase the capital of theirs, as, by so doing, you will find youi", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "68\\nOUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nlife neither lost to me nor rendered in their accounts as to the probable\\ndate of thy demise, thereby risking both for the benefit of others. It\\nwould be cruel of you to eat Hash, to give thy own manhood this\\nenfeebling means of health, believing that you could associate yourself\\nwith many men of many jaws familiar with boiled owl, and sell it to\\nthem as the great national nourisher 1 Confidence needs a consider-\\nation of faith in Hash as well as in man. Few cheap eating-house\\nkeepers eat their own grub. They can tell a bear from an unshaved\\nbarber are in the habit of handling meats that ought to go un-\\ntouched, that ought to go uncooked, that ought to go unsmelled of\\nbuying tough and boiling tender so, as Hash is very much like love,\\nrefining when it is pure, your dollars saved in a sound bank, with\\ninterest accrued, will enable you to start a Hash cook shop. A chop-\\nping-knife, and a few chunks of meat, at first, will be all you need to\\ncommence with. The quality of the meaty materials, and your know-\\nledge of the diet prepared ready for use, will soon make you famous as\\na caterer among a large community of inert beings that desire to be-\\ncome bilicosely aroused, and others who aim at power through their\\nminds politicians for instance-^who will gain from the superior quality\\nof your own make, an intelligence of national affairs which they can\\nderive from no other substance (not even whiskey and tobacco), to\\nstimulate them in their high aspirations for office holding, or to the\\nachievements of wealth, the glory of their country, and their own\\nexalted renown.\\nVMi\\nk vt\\nHASH AS A REFORMER.\\nWho would be the first to call me great,\\nIf I opened a meat shop in which\\nI made Hash and sold it to members of state,\\nMy Hash and their patronage making me rich", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 59\\nNow, your principles proclaim this way,\\nTis the merits of my Hash to thee that give\\nPolitical pre-eminence to-day,\\nMaking thy platforms and characters distinctive.\\nIt reconstructs man s state most rapidly\\nAll reformers call it grand, and why\\nBecause it stirs the people up who cry\\nGive us new Hash laws, old Hash laws must die.\\nFor long years you ve been feeding us\\nOn Hash made from the highest of tax d meat.\\nAnd stuff d us with the aliment because\\nWe law-abiding have endured the cheat.\\nNo longer shall we in this low condition live\\nLive on the nation s abject parsimony\\nWhile greedy politicians do us give\\nDirty Hash, they eating up the nation s honey.\\nHaving lived for, fought for, maintained its glory.\\nThro a civil strife of freemen madly enraged,\\nWho incited by Hash laws to make gory\\nHands of freemen in fraternal carnage waged.\\nYou still with greed of a state glutton,\\nThy culinary appetite insate.\\nFeeding on the laws of sumptuary mutton,\\nThe taxes of the government and state.\\nWhat party can be better than another,\\nThat caters solely to that party s greed\\nKindred of the nation we are brothers.\\nAnd should together at the nation s table feed.\\nWhy should you eat steaks of venison,\\nAnd I the Hash, a party may choose to give\\nTaxes, and duties performed to the state, come\\nFrom all intact to make the nation live.\\nOur resources are ample to offer\\nThe best cuts and joints of meat, possible.\\nTo all who will equally proffer\\nTo squelch laws that make our means lossible.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nAye, look at my coat, the shabby rag\\nOf protective laws against a freeman,\\nOn my back, defrauding a ragman s bag\\nOut of a second-hand coat bought of a seaman\\nWho had smuggled it into the country, p raps,\\nTo evade the heavy duty imposed\\nOn vi hat he should wear, which often haps\\nIn the law s eye, to make a rogue in clothes.\\nHe knew his right to buy in spite of laws\\nThat are burdensome, degrading and unwise\\nHere, the wearer, by the nation s greedy maws\\nAnd the shoddyites too, is equally victimized\\nOut of his hard-earned gains to look shabby,\\nTrashy clothing making him feel democratic\\nWhile Hash tariffs make the others happy\\nSmugglers and shoddy makers aristocratic.\\nNow, if the governmen.t makes laws radical.\\nSolely for to benefit a certain class,\\nWhy don t its measures be made self-amiable,\\nAnd stuff its own throat with its party Hash\\nYes, I feel almost certain that it is through party Hash that from\\nbeing, as we were, the pioneers in reform, national government, we\\nhave left reform a very long way behind us. For pioneering has made\\nus weak in the knees we were going ahead too fast, you know\\nhence we broke down, and in consequence, have become de\u00c2\u00abioralized as\\na result of fictitious prosperity. Our sepulchral looks show the pres-\\nence of Hash in our political system as well as in our corporate body\\nAt our banquets we talk freedom, big eagle, American chicken,\\nColumbia s big bird. Aye, very free indeed, and civilized is the\\ncountry where political intrigue is coverUy at work where a class of\\nmen care only for their own selfish interests in the management of\\nits affairs, who legislate to make the people s means perishable, so as\\nto give themselves an independency of fortune. Burdened with taxes,\\noppressed with laws, we talk freedom and practice tyranny. How\\ndisinteresting how sincere is our buncombe Offering an asylum to\\nthe down-trodden of old world monarchies, has made us the most\\nmagnanimous creatures that ever lived, or ever will live, perhaps. Our\\nHash laws and high prices are most digestible they are of all\\nother Hash countries in the known world yes, they are the most\\nsavory and disinterestedly administered for, well for gudgeons to\\nswallow.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n6)\\nHASH AND FREEDOM.\\nFor we are high beings with big Hvers\\nEating the goose that lays the golden %g.\\nTo the masses with Hash laws free givers\\nOf high-priced clothing, coffee, tea, and bread\\nFor the masses are demoralized,\\nAnd to reform them this our discipline\\nTheir eating turkey is not sound nor wise.\\nHash will make them never do the like again.\\nFor, with their appetites perverted,\\nDuring these hard times with no frugality.\\nTheir tastes from foreign luxuries must be diverted:\\nTo Hash of our home-make, a necessity\\nTo call in those promises of dollars\\nOf which our treasury was the maker", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0082\u00ac2 OUR AMERICAN HASH\\nOnce I paid ten for a dozen collars\\nTen paper dollars paid I for my collars\\nOf a big financial issue\\nSo abundant in those opulent days,\\nFor the government s promissory tissue,\\nWas legalized by laws on means and ways\\nTo make the nation with its paper rich,\\nSeemingly blind to sure revulsion\\nIn the value of necessities which\\nAdvanced in price during the resolution\\nHeroically to quell the creatures\\nOn the other side of INIason and Dixon s Line,\\nWho often with determined front defeated.\\nHash generals on their war fields, many a time.\\nThey came there fiercely with passion complete,\\nSeriously to quell the rebel enemy\\nBut Hash contested on a retreat\\nFlight was the Hash general s ignominy.\\nThen there was urgency in Hash feet\\nHeels do your duty through rocky crevices,\\nTill the reserved corps of our army meet.\\nHash gets pensioned for retreating services.\\nThe war m.ovement of the other side\\nWas better plan d, better drill d and detail d\\nBut every victory gain d, open d a gap wide\\nIn their ranks, whose loss they much bewailed.\\nAs their victories had in them no virtue\\nTheir adversities began when they ate Hash\\nTo the imprison d they show d no courtesy\\nTheir Hash confederacy got a beefy smash.\\nBut, the war continues in another name\\nNow its that of political hypocrisy,\\n*Twas then fanatics, the nation s honor defamed\\nNow its repubs. and low democracy.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Ob R AMERICAN UASM. 63\\nHASH AND THE CONSTITUTION.\\nAbiding here as one of the free race, and hoping to enjoy the pro-\\ntection of civil laws and privileges, I do not care now, nor in fact do I\\nwant at any time, to be deprived of those rights, that sweet inde-\\npendence which, with others, I have to contend for against the attempts\\nof misrulers and political rings Cesarism, Theocracy, Absolutism, Pos-\\nitivism, Paternalism, Nepotism, Tax-swindleism. Tliese and the funda-\\nmental principles of the Constiution which have been so often perverted\\nfrom their real intent and meaning by the political Jackal, it seems don t\\nsuit our views of modern political management. The Constitution,\\nsays Jackal, was framed by our forefathers simply to mystify us.\\nHere opinions differ. Just fancy the Constitutional parchment written\\nin the vague language of Hash! Don t its articles, rules, sections\\nand amendments, seem to all of us vague in meaning V Not at all,\\nMr. Jackal I make an exception to your opinion of the instrument s\\nindefiniteness. Tis you who desire to play the vague constitutional\\ncard to win at the game of unconstitutional law in order to further\\nsome sinister aims you may have in view. In corrupt times, honesty\\nbecomes a word for ridicule the result and opinion of the base judg-\\nments of political Hash-eaters. No wonder we are so bad when we\\nhear so many lies and so much false reasoning from their mouths\\nfor, the politician s faith is in his party, good or bad everything he\\ndoes is made subordinate to his interests. His friendships are among\\nhis kind, and when and where he becomesr ambitious, there is a\\ndecline in civilization.\\nThus political Hash has no conscience\\nFor citizens abroad or at home.\\nIt regards the Constitution as nonsense,\\nAnd desires to make laws of its own.\\nIn one of the federative totality,\\nThe regulation, I think, number five,\\nIt says, politically, v/e are all of a quality\\nHash says that equality is all in my eye.\\nThat it means numbers who favor exception\\nTo equality in every particular\\nThat equality is a deception\\nOf Hash law the freeman s rib tickler.\\nTYRANNY FOR FREEMEN.\\nYes, Hash has altered your disposition. You were too quiet, and\\nwe desired to give you a change your liberty was too excessive, and\\nwe desired to reduce it with our reform measures and civil service\\ndevices. We saw you were fit mulish objects of our ordinances, our", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nOUR AMERICAN IIAiU.\\ncommissions, our joint committees, our decisions and indecisions, valid\\nand invalid. And so, wiiat we passed in our legislative, our local, our\\nState and governmental chambers, you were to approve and not violate,\\nelse, by so doing, you were to be put through the ceremony of doing\\nduty to the State. Having abridged your freedom of action, we desired\\nyour body. There in prison, your liberty gone and vigor wasted on\\nswill not fit for swine, you d have ample time to repent of your inde-\\npendence twas us who had charge of that. We knew the kind of\\nlaws t\u00c2\u00a9 frame and pass, as the most likely ones you d violate, just as\\nwe intended, and thereby prove the most effective in raising fines and.\\nworking into the hands of political hucksters.\\nThose who wield a power administrative,\\nGained by leagues, caucuses, colonizing\\nBy joint action of both houses, they who give\\nThe people Hash to make them sing\\nDear independent bird of Liberty\\nOn broken wing, down fluttering, you now bewail.\\nYou ve been too free soaring in prosperity\\nHash hath caught thee by the wing and tail.\\nFor a mandate hath gone forth that letters\\nBearing any other but your real name.\\nMust be sent to tke dead-letter office spotters,\\nTo open them and read contents of same.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 6a\\nA regulation says, it s imperative\\nThat postmasters must all such letters detain\\nWhen asked for, the answer be a negative\\nYou ve no right to letters not in your own name,\\nExcept when sent to a representative,\\nAs in them you ve no proprietary right\\nTis only to dummies, ourselves, we give\\nYour materials in paper, which to gain you must fight\\nUs through the government law courts, composed\\nOf judges of our own choosing,\\nW/io have been seen, and whose minds are dosed\\nWith Hash decisions your letters refusing.\\nP r aps not even once did they look at the rule\\nWhose conditions unique and so comical,\\nMust have been framed by a shystering fool,\\nTo beat the fraternity medical\\nOut of their property and privileges\\nGuaranteed and plainly designated,\\nAs the Constitution justly alleges\\nIn a guidance for them to follow created\\nTo make no unwarrantable seizures\\nAll rights in papers must be kept sacred i\\nBut this, the Constitution-violating curs\\nMust have upside down, the regulation read.\\nHence the difference that came to exist\\nIn their framing of Hash rules for dull lambs,\\nWho gently allowed themselves to be fleeced,\\nAnd one who would not submit to demands\\nOf political Hash-pap feed postmasters,\\nWho kept foisting their order illegal\\nOn green geese who gainst it made no demurs,\\nTill one they found who was more than equal\\nTo all the masters, and the General\\nHimself who to their rightful owners refused\\nLetters private, sacred and medical,\\nBecause a postal regulation accused", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nA private correspondence in signature,\\nNot belonging to any one else but yourself.\\nNot even your own name in miniature,\\nOf your own initials claimed by nobody else,\\nAs violating a post-office code\\nWhich had been whirligigged through the senate,\\nFor a moral society whose mode\\nOf worded rules which, when I read, I did grin at\\nAs pious twaddle of puritan bigots\\nTrying to mend that which they did not understand-\\nThe social laws of man gainst creed of zealots.\\nWho, above you try to get the upper hand,\\nWith laws of pious Hash tyranny\\nAnd dodges known as impious Hash villainy.\\nHASH ATTACKING A PLUCK.\\nQuickly I saw the shadow was to fence\\nMe in the interest of the society,\\nThe Principal had for me often went,\\nHe said, as I was a curiositv.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "OUii AMERICAN HASH 67\\nThis was an initiative for a fight\\nI was determined to combat, p raps, all alone,\\nFor justice, privileges, and my legal rights.\\nBringing the issue in question to ihem home.\\nBut just as I was ready for the court.\\nThe institution took a Hash recess\\nMy pluck had cut their proceedings short\\nThey seemed to flounder in the Hashy mess\\nThey had made of themselves attacking a muff,.\\nAs they supposed but with unsight, clear as a welcher,\\nThe mutf had, with pen alone, scatter d the stuff,\\nThus giving their Hash regulation a squelcher.\\nI logically stript their law jargon to pieces,\\nClearly showing what their ideas really meant,\\nThat the post-offices themselves were places c\\nTo which all such letters having been sent, r\\nMust be delivered as a contribution\\nTo the caller, who had in them a right\\nAs paper, so stated in the Constitution,\\nOf which rules they must have made an oversight.\\nAfter me explaining the distinction\\nBetween the words themselves and what they said\\nAs a guidance. Hash began to think some.\\nSeeing what a fool it had of itself made.\\nTHE HASH REGULATION S TALL TALK.\\nIf any Hash be sent, by the Balloon Express, to any person who has\\nthoughts worth uttermg, the sender will be accused of alternpti7ig to incite\\nml and demoralize the goodly disposed, and as a punishment the sender shall\\nbe compelled to eat it.\\nAnd this our amendment of the article of the other amendment shall have\\nno binding force on us.\\nTHE HASH BEETLE.\\nWhat a splendid blind is Hash to get place and compensation from\\nthe grand party in power, for services derived from new political\\nschemes and restrictions placed over the privileges of the people. The\\nHash Beetle has no respect for the rights of persons nor their papers.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68\\nOUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nIt likes to crawl in star chambers, and invisibly through assemblies.\\nIts political dodges are known by many names. It has wonderful moral\\nprinciples and vigorous measures for the masses. Yes, even when it\\ngets knocked over with a Constitutional stick, the beetle will roll itself\\nup into a hard lump of nastiness, seemingly dead a dead letter in the\\nstatutes but only for a while, as it is sure to crawl out again from\\nits apparent defunctness into its natural shape, but with a finer quality\\nof moral gloss on its back, to varuish over some new scheme its covert\\nconscience has in view. The promise of good faith a knave gives to\\nfind dupes, is the sermon through which the hypocrite hopes to con-\\nvince you of his sincerity.\\nPiety affects the superior region of his brain,\\nBut in his heart you look for sympathy in vain.\\nThe Hash Beetle s heart is cold in its selfishness, and wanting in warm\\nsympathy toward his fellow creatures. Beetle says we are all degraded,\\nlow, unclean. That conceit should permit you to believe we are of\\nthis nature, and that we must conform to your views of morality and\\npiety, is sufficiently arrogant of thee, O Beetle to make thee out a liar,\\nand an enemy dangerous to the State. Thou wouldst coerce a people\\nwho seem not clean enough for thee. You want laws and means\\n(the peoples) to suppress slight faults, toward which, the really good\\nman tolerates, and is indulgent. Now go thou sleek, oily Beetle, var-\\nnished with morality, go and submit thy case to conscience it will\\nmake known to thee, that thou art a pious fraud of no importance to\\nthe world, nor to man of any real value. The best religion is the\\nheart the best wealth, honor.\\nWe have all the morals of other nations.\\nAnd why not say as well, too, all the vices\\nBut we sip reputed piety as rations\\nWhen we want a cover for devices,", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 69\\nThat in other eyes don t look dishonest\\nOur Hash principles are much better\\nMade by us small potatoes of the best\\nOf dirty acts to make us open letters\\nTis one of our rules of action\\nTo pry not, but to keep them sacred\\nIn future, the faults of that Hash faction,\\nShan t again intercept letters to read.\\nFor we found the rule was most dangerous\\nContrary to constitutional law,\\nWhich came near getting us into a muss\\nWith a victim who gave us much jaw\\nOf tyrants, scoundrels, political thieves,\\nThat could so tamper with others papers.\\nHearing which we only laughed in our sleeves\\nAt him and our subordinates capers.\\nWe got a letter giving us counsel,\\nFor us to render justice on the right side\\nThat of legal meat there wasn t an ounce full\\nIn all the letter cook shops far and wide,\\nTo nourish the Hash family of beats, i\\nWho, in their ignorance, swallow d the swill,\\nFeeding the head office with paper meats.\\nAnd, p r aps, would now be doing so still,\\nHad not a medical man cautioned them\\nAgainst the bad quality of the feed,\\nToo nasty and indigestible for men\\nWhose positions gave them more need\\nTo lighten their faculties with the grace\\nOf justice, equity and reason.\\nAnd not their names and honors disgrace\\nWith Hash rules cooked for them out of season\\nIn the big restaurant at Washington,\\nWhile some of the waiters were out, time over due.\\nPurposely, so that the society s bill might come\\nTo pass in the wide gap of absence through.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nHASH, A PIOUS CONSPIRATOR.\\nNow, what s your opinion of our equity,\\nYe pious Hash-eaters of sweet liberty?\\nWe don t practice vice nor impiety\\nAgainst the rights and justice of men legally.\\nWe are incapable of all such tricks.\\nAs variously working a detective force,\\nPutting up jobs against men on whom weve fixed\\nOur machinery s dark pumping force.\\nTo induce them with tempting offers\\nOf great patronage in some industry.\\nWhose illegal sale might fill legal coffers,\\nFrom high-priced fines got by low immoral sophistry\\nPiously prepared for the occasion,\\nTo let Justice furnish us the conscience\\nKeeping back the proofs of our own temptation\\nf We to the accused from a distance sent.\\ni\\nYes, your efforts being in this matter to show\\nThe Court, how ably you did interrupt\\nThe sale of articles, Hash rules call low.\\nAnd which were asked for in the job put up\\nAgainst the accused, a conspiracy,\\nAssuredly one of your own invention.\\nTo attaint the dupe and threat his privac}-,\\nThe le\\\\y of black ipail the first intention.\\nI\\nFor where the bad exist not we must make\\nA good man s actions seem so to our thought,\\nWe must his free existence from him take,\\nAnd thrust him into durance where he ll be taught\\nThe wisdom of right doing predominates\\nOver evils that need our chastisement,\\nIn the judgment of our own pious sakes\\nDemanding no blackmailing recompense.\\nAs workers more or less of authority.\\nBringing your own made evil-doers up\\nBefore twelve men, who, of the majority.\\nHave been packed to decide against your dupe,", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nAnd put a limit to his liberty\\nBy perjury and defaming words,\\nToo oft the covert underhand dexterity\\nOf manufactured evidence absurd.\\nHASH, A DEMORALIZER.\\nLook in court rooms and see the degraded beings there, then ask\\nyourself the reason that makes so great a difference in the appearance\\nof the judge and the criminal, who, having transgressed on man s faith,\\nin man, has departed from his own moral nature. Is whiskey, tobacco,\\nHash, or beef, the varying cause. But, looking closer, we sometimes\\nsee that the accused has much more grace in his bearing and appear-\\nance than the accuser, who, perhaps, belongs to some order of beings\\nself constituted as a Hash society for the propagation of its own fulsome\\ntwaddle and self laudatory importance, of how it can influence the\\ncourts in case any of its members are arrested for embezzlement,\\nswindling, conspiracy to defraud, etc. A rogue thinks that other\\npeople s honesty is only affected piety, and justice but a rigid punish-\\nment to restrain free action on articles of value. In such evil sur-\\nroundings, bad whiskey and Hash, often struggle, one against the\\nother. The judge may say, it s the evil proclivities of the filcherwho loses\\nhonor and respect in the world, that gives him his hi^h position, and\\nthe opportunity to send the culprit to the sheriff s Hash-mill, at two", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 OVR AMERICAN HASH.\\ndollars a day for board, paid by the county, and the county paid by\\nthe taxpayers, and the judge, the sheriff, and the taxpayers all paid by\\nthe consumers of Hash, who, residing in a political Hash county, and\\nfor the maintenance of politics and shabby justice, vote their lives away\\nby inches going to the polls their liberty by so many square feet of\\nsurface coming from the polls and their property by yards of prepared\\ntape lists for opening and repairing roads, cutting through streets, and\\nsetting up curb stones, sewerage, and building the lord only knows\\nwhat and how often, as tax jobbery, seemingly in swindleville, never\\nhas an ending.\\nO ye supreme court judge, ye beef-fed judge, intellectual judge,\\nChristian judge, conscientious judge, don t let your rulings be one-\\nsided, for, by doing so, you make a farce of justice. Where is the\\njustice in the ways of getting it, if it costs more than we sue for. Let\\nyour honor reason your conscience do right admit not deceit to\\naccommodate itself covertly in thee a point of justice that too often\\nswings on the pivot of judicial corruption.\\nYe judge with a heart that can feel, and a mind that can understand,\\ndon t be too severe, or you ll be suspected of being too officious. Con-\\nfidence merits a consideration of faith in man. Gratitude comes kindly\\nfrom the heart to him who offers pardon to the erring.\\nYe judge that can reason and read the salutary lesson of advice to\\nthe erring, telling them to turn not from the right path, which, though\\nit may seem the longest in the beginning, always proves the shortest in\\nthe end.\\nYe patriotic judge, opposed to tyranny, still encourage all those\\nWho dare to exercise their liberty of speech\\nAgainst the restrictions and tyranny\\nOf government, state, and municipal power,\\nWhose laws so oft make freedom s bird screech\\nBefore an oligarchy of squashes\\nWho drink the milk of Liberty as feed,\\nAnd try to stuff us with restrictive Hashes\\nThey in their arrogance call good\\ni Enough for us who must support bob veal\\nWith our labor, influence, and banknotes;\\ni We ve put the calves in office and must feel\\nThe Hash they give us in return for votes\\nThat many of us didn t cast for them, the frauds,\\nWho cook d the Hash accounts in registry, j\\nAnd who now sip the aliment of sweet applause\\nOf victorious, political chicanery.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n73\\nTHE SONG OF UNISTASIA.\\nThey are individuals of much intrigue.\\nMaking arbitrary laws to keep their seals\\nIn the federation of State greed,\\nFilling all the departments with Hash meats.\\nTis us who must judge what is good for them,\\nOtherwise they will us menace\\nWith the same obstinate force they did when\\nIn their last game they threw us the ace\\nOf clubs, which we took up on a rubber\\nAt an awful expense, that still makes us,\\nWhen we think of it. bluster and blubber,\\nAll through the negro, the cause of the fuss.\\nSo to-day, ye great guns of liberty,\\nAs yet our big spread of earth remains in tact,\\nOnce ye saved it from a split-up rivalry,\\nBut we ve not, as yet, quite mended that big crack\\nIts boiler got, with salve conciliate\\nTo anoint our friends South equitably;\\nWith arrogant vanity we still them hate,\\nNot giving them equal rights amicably.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 Omi AMEEJCAN HASH.\\nWe call them pigs with rings in their noses,\\nAnd regard them yet as foes of the country,\\nWhose fences they knock d down with their toeses.\\nAnd would again root up Liberty s tree.\\nA voice not while Joseph knows it, old liorse\\nBuncombe old spouter you talk like a brick\\nConcessions to them would make matters worse\\nThey want to return to the whip and the kick\\nOf our freed African fellow-citizen,\\nThey who esteem us their carpet-baggers\\nWhom their old masters yet as cruel men\\nDenounce as wolves and confiscation jaguars.\\nHASH RULES THE LAND,\\nof Unistasia. Here are men in high places whose positions have\\nbeen attained through the unique odors and piquant taste ot Hash.\\nNow, what kind of people can a nation expect, in the future, if those\\nof the present day are fed on Hash Hash, during the past genera-\\ntion, has been the cause of all our national weakness, physically, men-\\ntally and morally. It seems incredible that this vast ct)untry of ours,\\nhaving an abundance of everything substantial, should yet be guilty of\\nthe folly of making a random choice in selecting appropriate viands for\\nthe attainment of purity and strength of national character.\\nOur laws are severe enough against the ordinary transgressor, but\\ncontain few repressive measures to restrain the political offender. To\\nour tempers we are prone to give way we are urged to feel them unduly\\ntoward those whom we our kindness showed those who, ignorant and\\npassionate in election times, make strategic negotiations with the\\nmasses for office those who have no interest at heart but the people s\\nmoney, to get which, makes them more obsequious than slaves.\\nLet us reflect, now that we know their way of working the political\\nmachine. Such knowledge of their doings at this moment is all-\\nimportant. In certain States we see two political factions at arms.\\nWhat is it but the hatreds of men stirred up by the disgust of Hash\\nvoting. If our reasons have not become too dull to make their offenses\\ntolerant to the nation, we must stop being too generous with Hash\\nvoting.\\nAs a means of resistance, our duty will be to go back on them, to\\nsquelch their rivalry of faction, so that they must obey us in authority,\\nfis they who must submit to the wish of the citizen. We have the\\npower and know our duty to our governors, but we also know our duty\\nis only to those whose manners show them not dangerous to the State\\nnor the nation. Now, the nation s plaint of wrong is general against\\nthe force of covert fraud. They have not done, nor don t do that\\nwhich is really needed by the people, for of their needs they pay no\\nattention. They take the place only for what it is worth, and leave it", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "/7..^\\nHAPH RULES THE LAM).", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 77\\nworse than they found it, for it has become tarnished with more cor-\\nruption while they were there. They are good only to talk, drink, chew\\nand smoke, but to govern not, as their acts show nothing worthy the\\npositions they hold.\\nPassing unjust laws don t give security to the State. By their enforce-\\nment, both the people and their means are lost through the ravages\\nof insurrection. Civil wars are the diseases of bad government, where\\nplaces are dispensed to men who give the people no proof of honor\\nfor their peaceful security. It seems as if the party yet in power had\\nbeen put there to shackle free action with a cordon of vile laws that\\nwill become, ere long, too burdensome for a freeman s endurance.\\nThus for place, and their own advantage, they hazarded the nation s\\nlife now they risk its credit and reputation with Hashy financiering\\nschemes, for, in weighing riches, they see that the balance shall go\\ndown on their own side. Yes, it is one-sided party Hash that rules\\nthe land and not the broad, wise administration of national affairs\\nmost dear to all the masses alike. As cleanliness of body is conducive\\nto health, and as health keeps the body sound, so honor in its public\\nmen, is the virtuous principle for a nation to make its people noble,\\nhonest and happy. By these means each individual feels his true\\ninherent freedom that every man is a law to himself, that every man\\nis a part of the nation. To some this may sound like sentiment, but it\\nis a fact, nevertheless.\\nTis wise to govern with honor, and show a noble example to every\\ncitizen for that nation is rich that has bright minds and good hearts\\nbut great power from small minds we must not expect. What do they\\ngive to the nation.? Is it original knowledge, original literature, orig-\\ninal morality, or original Hash politics Does the latter support the\\nState, or the State support the mak-^r.? Always the great wrong to-\\nthe people is the great fault the reason why nations perish. It vould\\nbe possible to avert this calamitous calamity, were the public good\\nnot sacrificed to fraud were the right sort of men selected to guide the\\nnation to glory -men who don t eat Hash, who know its unfitness to\\nmake jaws chatter on high diplomacy who know tl strong must\\nwork, the infirm get assistance, the poor receive alms, the bad be\\ntaught good, the wicked righteousness, and grace and honor be ac-\\ncorded to merit. Such men would be a credit to the nation. But\\nyou may doubt and still be indifferent to the remedy, which is avoid-\\nance of the cause that may yet lead to a terrible combat, instigated by\\nthe wild extreme of jarring passions.\\nNow, if we desire to struggle nobly against the impending doom of\\nthe big Yankee nation, we must be more moderate in our use of Hash\\npolitics, and rely for stability of good government on the virtues of\\nbeef wise beef\u00e2\u0080\u0094 intelligent beef plucky beef, quick and determined\\nto strangle the scorpion of sedition alert and ever ready to hazard the\\nurgent battle of right against wrong, at the ballot-box.\\nYes, we must place more faith in tender, juicy joints joints of solid\\nprosperity, with which to infuse pure animal spirits in our present\\nabject, disheartened people, as a result of Hash railroad failures. Hash\\nstrikes. Hash trade-unions, Hash protective sausage rings, and broken\\nHash banks.\\nAny one who has the means, now-a-days, to experiment on the luxury", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nof tender beef, can prove this by eating a joint. After his teeth have\\njointly disjointed the joint, or a part thereof of the aforesaid first part\\nof the joint, bought in a joint-stock batcher s shop, he will hence\\naway on fleet hoof, swift as an Arab steed, to buy horses, houses, lots,\\nyachts, dogs. But let him substitute Hash for beef, and the arrange-\\nment of his plans of purchase will, in forge tfulness, make him happy,\\ndefying the trouble to get suddenly rich. The distribution of his means\\nwill be divided here and there in small sums, reminded so to do by the\\nprecantion that Hash engenders the moral reason because Hash,\\nbeing a product of economy, is only used by the mean and niggardly\\ninclined.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nPART V.\\nIN THE GAME OF LIFE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WHO WINS\\nDEEB OR HASH\\nNow, those who risk their lives and means, and those who are\\nalmost sure where to put both means and life safely in every part of the\\ncivilized globe, are not the Hash fed. Hash never inspires risk, specu-\\nlative foresight and calculation, to do anything of the sort. As a proof\\nof this assertion, in its freedom of monetary action, no nation has its\\nbullion heart moved more than the English, to yearn for a slice of the\\nsound financial parchment of a nation not having silver Hash bills for\\nfiduciary refreshment. No, the English are eaters of beef, of which\\nthey take three good square meals a day. It is the diet of all others that\\ntouches most the British heart, for they take much interest in beef\\nbeef Irish beef Dutch\u00e2\u0080\u0094 beef American.\\nLand of the butcher d oxen, boiled and roast,\\nOf which great nations use a good supply\\nHence we know what makes the English boast,\\nAnd Hash-fed nations so much prone to lie.\\nCan we through Hash, too, fight our way to glory,\\nAs they have done by right of beef divine.\\nNo. the Land of Freedom will achieve it slowlv,\\nIf laws against the tyrant are not made in time.\\nJust think of Hashy offerings to our noble pride,\\nAs a nation of proud freemen to bear\\nOur titles should be beef beef in the hide\\nBeef skinn d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 beef roasted tender beef to tear\\nWith teeth of porcelain and rubber gums,\\nElse the envelope of our race\\nWill soon find out its parchment day has come,\\nDried, warp d, spare spare in frontispiece of face.\\nYes, our noble, great, ambitious race, O Hash,\\nOnce, twice, three times a day devouring thee,\\nMay in their pride of greed, yet get a smash\\nComplet-e against their immortality", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nThat future times may wonder who we were.\\nAnd eagerly from the mouldering morsel\\nUp exhumed by the farmer s plough, infer\\nOur race was Hash, so says this bony fossil.\\nThou noble dead, great friends of nature\\nUnderneath the sod to make grass grow,\\nQuitting life to give the fields a greeny feature\\nFrom Hash seed deeply in the ground sowed.\\nTHE HASH FOSSIL.\\nYes, those who labor in the earth may find\\nMy own embalmd skeleton, a unique subject\\nTo call the great virtues of Hash to mind,\\nThe purest specimen of the Hash object\\nComplete in all my parts, most favorable\\nTo show the grandeur of the Hashy race\\nFrom head to foot examined on a table,\\nBefore a learned society that may trace\\nDivers most eccentric jointicles\\nRevealing in the epoch of my time,\\nHow my life and body were corftiectivales.\\nDuring the Hashified glory of my prime.\\nAll such knowledge they may put into their heads,\\nAnd choose the instance for a learned pow-wow\\nHow from the dead body, the fossil leads\\nThem to wonder at its living habits, how how.\\nTHE SECRET OF THE FOSSIL.\\nThus the time may come around, I ve pointed\\nOut the learn d moment they may choose,\\nJ To determine from my relics jointed,\\ni I of the race of Hash bear the best proofs.\\nThus my skeleton may much interest excite\\nIn them, my race and epoch to divine\\nDoubtless some may in the bony frame, sight\\nA remote resemblance to the monkey line.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\n81\\nThus m) date of being being obscure,\\nI not clearly to their eyes discernible,\\nHash feeding having so changed my nature, sure,\\nAn enigma in their minds ever turnible.\\nThus a long time undefined, style me a cordilla\\nA dweller of the great Hashiferous sphere\\nA dem-oos-cus, a squatting gorilla\\nEmbalm d in Hash and lager beer.\\nWHERE THE FI.OWER OF MY YOl TH BLOOMED.\\nAlready I hear them discussing the date\\nOf my Hashified body s lost epoch.\\nIts a million of years or more since the fate\\nOf the doodle-dum race their Hashy quietus got.\\nThis man lived among the volcanic rocks\\nBy this proof here we are well assured\\nSee, this tendon remaining, sends forth electric shocks\\nOf Hashiferous shakings its body endured", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "OULi AMERICAN HAS//.\\nAt the great Hash period when the world\\nIn its bowels, from sharp colicy pains\\nTrembling shook the universe and whirl d\\nThe rocks over its anatomical remains.\\nAN EPICTICUS-OOTUS.\\nThus I mav some day become a defunct\\nSpecimen of the Hash doodledum race,\\nCheeks, eyes and nose gone, back broken, shoulders lir.m] \u00c2\u00abi\\nAn Epicticus-ootus defaced\\nIn the minds of some ethnological\\nSocieties, who may get into a muss\\nAttacking each with mental cudgicals,\\nAbout me the f4:)icticus-ootus.\\nThev may give to the world their opinion free\\nOf mv pepperneum pipe and plexus\\nThey may say that my helium s inflexibility\\nShows that I m an Epicticus-ootus.\\nThe frilossous structure of its frame,\\nAnd the place of its abdominicus,\\nShow it to be of the period we name,\\nA Hash Epicticus-ootus\\nIts amphytric ducts, without a doubt,\\nShow it must have had a gusto-pylorus.\\nWhich clearly proves it snift Hash through the snout,\\nThe habit of the real Epicticus-ootus.\\nOf this food it must have eaten often,\\nAt breakfast and supper, and a superflus\\nAt lunch taken with some sort of drink to soften\\nThe Hash in the Epicticus-ootus.\\nThus they may hold a learned discourse\\nOver the food it was my habit to use.\\nAnd the number of platefuls served as a course\\nTo make of me an Epicticus-ootus.\\nIndeed, a long time these savants, with learning profound,\\nMay the mystery of my existence discuss,\\nAnd wonder much of the beings underground,\\nThe lost race of the Epicticus-ootus.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN JIASR.\\n8;S\\nTHE MYSTIC WONDER.\\nJn museums I may be exhibited\\nTo those who will look at me and wonder\\nAt my race, and the place we inhabited\\nOn earth torn by an earthquake asunder.\\nOf this the society will be communicative\\nWith respect to my country and genealogy,\\nThat my grubby flux shows I was subjective\\nTo Hash as a food for life s necessity.\\nThen all the details of my habits\\nWhen alive, and how by Hash made a martyr,\\nMay be sold in book form at small profits\\nAt the small cost of a silver quarter.\\nStep in, gents will be the showman s murmur,\\nAnd see this famous mystery\\nSoon its lower jaw will begin to stir\\nThis movement you can for a quarter see.\\nFive minutes, as yet, ere its meal comes round.\\nYou can see it move its jaws before the Hash,\\nThey open and shut as when in life quite sound.\\nComing together thus they grind, and munch, and crash,\\nTis the wonder of the nineteenth century.\\nTo see it without life moving its jaws just\\nAt meal time the marvellous mystery\\nOf the Hash Epicticus-ootus.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 OUR AMERIGAIi HASH.\\nAnd so around the world, at some future daj,\\nTo curious eyes I may be shown, how thus\\nI ate my Hash, and how it was the way\\nI became an Epicticus-ootus.\\nHASH, A VILE DESPOT.\\nNow, all ye Hash feeders who may read this transformation of mv\\nnature, be warned in time, or else you, yourselves, may become altered\\nby its indulgence, a^e, lowered in your humanity, the beauteous work\\nof the Creator changed demoralized. Therefore, my enslaved breth-\\nren, you must break loose from thy chains of Hash. You must rise\\nand conquer your liberty against your oppressor rise in your might\\nover the tyrant, on your way to the free land of pure blood through the\\ngeneral-in-chief of all strengtheners General Beef. Aye, you should\\nserve under and devote all your energies to the service of Beef Not\\nbefore then, in this land of liberty, will you gain your freedom from\\nHash, the vile despot who is keeping you down. Released from the\\nthraldom, a grand national party, as a side issue at the next presiden-\\ntial election, would force the suppression of Hash in loto. It would be\\njustly popular as the one thing needful in these times for the honest\\ncitizen so long held bound in the trammels of political Hash. The\\ncountry has everything to gain by the measure, and nothing to lose.\\nEach voter, if left to his own free will, uninfluenced by party or self-\\ninterest in his choice of candidate, would, by forming a grand total,\\ncarry it through the polling places by an immense majority for each\\nfree and equal citizen would then see that he was engaged in the good\\nwork of suppressing the common enemy of his nature otherwise, if\\neach free and enlightened citizen be not released from its oppressive\\ninfluence, each free-and-easy citizen who eats Hash, may have cause tc\\nsing at a free-and-easy concert\\nThou art a magnificent king to rule\\nDyspeptic subjects of the eating world\\nOf agitating man you make a mule\\nHaving no wish thy tyranny to spurn.\\nFor thy game is that of flattery to the nose,\\nWielding authority through its cooking art,\\nAnd by it holding thy subjects down and those\\nWho wish, O Hash, from thy binding chains to part.\\nYes, the time has arrived for Hash to be banished from the land r\\nwe ve been subjected long enough to its pernicious influence, both in\\nour domestic and political affairs. As patient mortals, we have eaten\\ntoo much of it. It has caused us an excess of bilious, political suffer-\\ning, and the low, ignorant manufactures of it must be restrained from\\nspreading the vile compound any further, or else the Republic will soon\\nbe a-goner.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 85\\nRepublics are lost through the government of the multitude, and\\nkingdoms which are controlled by one person are subject to the like\\ndangerous ending of their power from the want of some ot the multi-\\ntude not being installed in its services. Now, he who serves in a\\nHash Republic, imperils honor to knavery, and he who tenders his\\nlife and means to a tyrant, imperils bolh to a knave. Therefore, it is\\nadvisable to those who would live peaceably and securely, to avoid\\nthose nations where the least favors are shown to humble merit, and\\nthe countries where the entire control of national affairs, are in the\\nhands of the few for the more your liberty is spread in the land gov-\\nerned by the many, the thinner it gets, the older it grows, and the less\\nit is spread in the other, your dignity is apt to become thickened with\\ndisgust for those in authority one is blind to the people s necessities,\\nand the other pays no attention to their needs. But nations cannot\\nbuild very long upon injustice, especially in republics where honor has\\nto struggle against calumny which occupies the common mind.\\nO happy is the nation that is really free where there is no despot-\\nism of any kind to wield neither political nor social tyranny over man.\\nThere is but one true nobility, and that is manhood. There is but one\\nreal aristocracy, and that is mind. The first insures you against dis-\\nease, imposition and insult the second makes you the beloved of all\\nmankind.\\nTherefore, take heed of what I state. If Hash be banished from\\nColumbia s land, corruption of both mind and body will disappear.\\nThe poor will become rich, and the rich richer. The ignorant learned,\\nand the learned more learned. The bad will be less bad, and the good\\nsuperlatively good. The frames of the weakened will become strength-\\nened, and the strong so far physically increased in energy that they\\nwill want to roll at ten-pins with balls as big as the dome of the\\nCapitol at Washington. The decrepit of age will be restored to the\\nbuoyant feelings of youth and minds made vacuitous of knowledge\\nfrom lack of application, opportunity or neglect, will be filled with\\nwisdom. Fancy us, then, allowing Hash any longer to be the foun-\\ndation-stone on which the social building of society shall continue to\\nrest. If we do so allow it to continue as the corner-stone of our laws,\\nour government, and rules of health, it will be absurd, and incline us\\nto believe that man is naturally depraved. Of this degenerate seed in\\nhis nature, we are frequently told to believe by ministers of pulpits\\nand judges of benches, who, depending, as they do, on the depravity of\\nhumanity for their positions in life, get rich and fat through the many\\nsources of man s chief wickedness too much attachment to the oppo-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iite sex, and too much affection for other people s goods. Every\\nSabbath-day are we not told that we have many errors, much delusion,\\nillusion, confusion, mystery, device, misery, evil, as a consequence of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0our present system resting on so low a diet as a base political, dietetic\\nsocial, literary, artistic, etc.\\nAgainst all such views I have no opinions to offer. I do not care\\nwith ministers and lawyers to differ; I ve no desire to engage iii the\\ndisagreements of a wordy fight with these supporters of long established\\ndogmas and ethics. But but but I must say it, yes, I m.ust speak\\nit right out fearlessly to all the world, Man is not innatelv had, as the\\napplication of the Divine Spirit setting his physical nnd mental func-", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 OLiR AMERICAN HASH\\nlions and faculties agreeably working is good. For it must seem\\nabsurd to any reflecting mind, that the Divine Spirit of goodness inhe-\\nrent in man s nature, should, through the spiritual force of Divine\\nWill, be directed to commit evil, as the Mind or Will Power that\\ncould dictate the wrong would, equally have the power to restrain the\\ntendency to evil.\\nBut my opinions of man s depravity are, that man s nature has\\nbecome changed by impositions of all kinds practised on it from its\\nyouth up, by evil advice and the wicked example of old frauds whc\\ninitiate him in dark and covert dodges of Society Hash, to furthei\\nselfish interests, and which craftily affecting the interior of his spongy\\ncerebellum, permits the sucked-up cabalistic essence of materialistic\\nuntruths to lodge in his mind.\\nYes, I say it again, inferring from what I know of him during the\\nfew innocent years of his budding infancy, that man is born naturally\\ngood goodness leads and follows him. The smooth working of his\\nperfect organism and faculties, and the divine sentiments of his heart,\\naccord with the smooth truths of inherent divinity in his nature. But\\nit is here on earth, in the present Hashy condition it is in, that his\\nnature, in its juvenile days, becomes contaminated by Hash, the\\nDemoralizer.\\nPART VI,\\nIN THE MOUTH OF COLUMBIA.\\n]\\\\Iy dear, kind motherly aunt, who fed me tenderly.\\nWith the prudent food of justice and of truth,\\nFor which I thanked her very sincerely\\nEre I left the presence of her sheltering roof,\\nTo wander from State to State like a tramp.\\nIn a land of liberty so called,\\nNow comparably distinct, but with a stamp\\nShowing no difference, no distinction at all,\\nIn its workings, from that of an empire,\\nTo a people Hash laws degradingly lower\\nWith a despotism absolute, entire,\\nWielded by the hands of organized power\\nOver their industry, commerce, and rights,\\nWith favorite, special, and Hashified laws\\nEnforced with the concurrence of judicial might\\nAgainst all w^ho oppose them with jaws and paws.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nDear boy, I feel solicitous for thy happiness,\\nAway from the homestead and my care.\\nIn this land having no distinctive class\\nTo guard your property from dangers where\\nThe scheming frauds of trickery preside\\nOver it, in secret combinations\\nOf low politicians who far and wide\\nMay filch it with their taxing operations.\\n^Twas thus the kind lady began to fret\\nAt my safety in New York land,\\nSaying I would there my sojourn regret,\\nEating the cold comfort of Hash too much cann d.\\nBut its a part of your own household, dear ma,\\nA state of wealth and activity\\nA branch of the same race, you know, who are\\nLinked to us by ties of kindred reciprocity.\\nBut my daughter, Unistasia, is yet a mere child,\\nUnacquainted with the necessities\\nOf making her politicians more mild\\nIn their factious, political massacres.\\nImagination gains force by the distance, aunt.\\nOf news sent to it from strange countries\\nWe highly color that which is only apparent\\nA varnishing of national eccentricities.\\nBut I can help my cousin, Unistasia,\\nTo squelch those frauds of fair Liberty.\\nHow By throwing word bombs into their camp, ma-\\nBombs that may burst their anarchal machinery,\\nFrom which her nation is now much imbued\\nWith part ^^s the people s means devouring.\\nAnd give them a taste of lampoon stewed,\\nAgainst their principles of Hash, souring\\nThe stomachs of the people owning the land\\nA people gentle, confiding, but of mild confidence\\nIn political frauds, who often demand\\nTheir paper dollars under a semblance", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "9(1 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nOf putting their money out to public uses,\\nOf repairing, street cleaning, and building.\\nAnd many other similar abuses\\nWell known as political swindling.\\nIt seems to me, Quill, that your voice and words-\\nAre much too fervent these men to blame\\nThe public cry thief if aught occurs\\nTo show that they whiskey and tobacco gain\\nDoing their duties carefully as public men\\nWho seldom gain an honest reputation\\nHowever upright they are, even then,\\nThey are objects of public defamation.\\nYes, aunt, there s some truth in what you say.\\nFor the public is a curious animal,\\nDo for it whatever good you may,\\nIt will still fmd in it something blamable.\\nFor in this land of independence,\\nThe proclivity of Liberty s tool\\nIs to skin the public eel with a vengeance,\\nMaking the skinn d, taxed mortal, an abject fool.\\nI address my w^ords to men of merit.\\nWho here, upright, learn d, obscure, look on,\\nKnowing my judgment from them deserving credit.\\nTo every word I say will sadly respond.\\nTis a serious thing, that the learnd men of the State\\nAre kept back by political opponents.\\nWho from the resistance much capital make\\nCapital for principles all that is meant\\nIt seems to me. Quill, the principles are wrong.\\nAnd must some day lead to a conspiration\\nOf the people, who, determined and strong.\\nWill change the method witn indignation.\\nYes, aunt, they re ripe now for violent action\\nBoth Republican and Democratic hordes\\nAre divided into splits and factions,\\nRampant to collide from agitating words.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. gj\\nAre you sure, Quill Yes, aunt. Discussion oft irritates\\nBoth parties, politically wounding each side,\\nBut I know a method that would mike\\nAll their thoughts of violence be set aside.\\nHow so, Quill? Well, aunt, during a big discussion\\nOf the two excited parties, while in passion,\\nI would give them for their services a cushion\\nStuffed with Hash, on which in this fashion,\\nThey could take a back seat and repose\\nTheir beery loggerheads with pleasure,\\nAnd see that talented men the offices composed\\nRetired merchants, men of means and leisure,\\nWho alone content to render duty\\nTo the State, without a cent of pay,\\nHash mouths would then on civil rights be mute,\\nGiving the people their just rights in a right way.\\nThat s just like you. Quill your head is full of notions\\nYour scheme s a very bold method, I must say,\\nFor the people of Unistasia s nation,\\nWhose custom it has been, and is to this day,\\nTo be stirred up by party agitation\\nFrom a lethargy that else might ensue.\\nHad not their minds this source of irritation,\\nTo make them note down what their rulers do.\\nAunt, I didn t view my scheme in that direction,\\nTis only as a remedy that might influence\\nThe expulsion of Hash ignorance from election\\nA learn d man for office instead of a dunce.\\nAnd further as a cure for the Hash evil,\\nFd remove the lucre consideration\\nOf money for services civil\\nThis itself would make an alteration,\\nIn the disease of which Fve taken notes.\\nAffecting the system wilh a mockery\\nOf swallowing far too many votes,\\nCausing us to suffer from political quackery.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 OUR AMERICAS HASH.\\nBut don t the people. Quill, by this means gain their rights\\nDoesn t the system say they re equal to their equals?\\nYes, aunt to cast their votes for a party s choice,\\nAs thousands are told to do, or lose their meals\\nIf they don t vote for their bosses interest\\nAgainst their own views and principles\\nOf free thought in their choice of the best\\nMen whom they regard as individuals\\nFittest for the national sovereignty\\nOf equality in all things, save one,\\nOr two, perhaps, intelligence and divinity\\nOf moral character that is looked u{)on\\nBy them, as paramount above all else,\\nTo constitute a sound society\\nNot based alone on family pride or pelf,\\nMuch the greed of Freedom s Land of Liberty\\nWherein the shystering national enemy\\nAbounds collusive with and among men of state,\\nFlourishing in corrupt bribery,\\nA sample of which we ve seen here of la .e,\\nWith their counts, and ct)unter counts counting\\nPlates of Hash votes, others from those plates backing\\nTo the other side of Hash, there amounting\\nTo no account from corrupt party hacking.\\nThese dissensions are from the system\\nInseparable, each party having its own way\\nOf cooking the national Hash, good or mean,\\nAnd eating the aliment solely for pay.\\nFor thev cannot unite in one group\\nPolitically for the imiform benefit\\nAnd honor of the nation at large, nor stoop\\nAnd elevate iis grandeur by making it\\nIn science, literature, and art, as great\\nIn these as we ve done in the mechanical.\\nTo cope with other worlds of older date.\\nWho view us as strange and remarkable", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nFor active character and enterprise\\nBut lost in the consideration of time\\nWe waste over political merchandise.\\nCounting- this vote is yours, and that vute is mine,\\nI must go in, and you must go out\\nOf ofHce office being the sole motive\\nOf patriotism and honor, without\\nAny Hash bribes given as a votive\\nOffering to me for helping that Hash\\nScheme of book Pirates to pass,\\nSo that Pirate may get rich on foreign trash.\\nBOOK PIRATE, THE BRAIN CANNIBAL.\\nHe pilfers, thus sanctioned by government\\nSo to do, as we Unistasians are fools,\\nWho with the law s complicity and intent,\\nLet him drink wine out of author s skulls,\\nTo wash down the Hash of Pirate snarling\\nAt some native author in a garret,\\nWho poor, unknown, to keep himself from starving,\\nAsked the Pirate to be kind enough and take\\nHis work and publish for each conjointly.\\nMutually dividing the proceeds\\nOf profit from copies sold equitably,\\nTo save the author from starvation s needs.\\nNot I, says Pirate, though great his genius be\\nNative talent, here in the States, aint worth a fig\\nThere s no money in it, hence that of me\\nPublishing unbought foreign works makes a book prij\\nFor here I can appropriate as mine,\\nA foreign author s work of fame and prestige.\\nIn any branch of the literary line,\\nAnd pay him ne er a dollar of percentage\\nFrom the sales of his work excellent.\\nWhich the public with avidity devours\\nWondering at the mind of foreign talent.\\nThus caring not for the talented of ours.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "9f)\\nOVE AMERICAN HASH.\\nWho are injured by this sort of stealing\\nFrom others whose rights, too, need preserving:\\nWith the same honor, and the same feeling\\nOf injustice done the native deserving\\nFrom book knavery, legal protection\\nAgainst all such piratical thugs,\\nNow curbing the genius of the nation,\\nAnd making of Pirates big bugs.\\nHASH LAWS AND HASH FRAUDS.\\nThus we see how Mr. Pirate floods the land\\nWith works of foreign merit and of trash.\\nAgainst which to pay for he takes a bold stand\\nWith money to bribe political Hash\\nThe instinct of the Hash animal to eat,\\nAnd fatten on the operation vital\\nForeign Hash is to both mutually sweet\\nBetter than original native food intellectual\\nBecause its virtues are felt in the pocket.\\nWhere Hash laws and trash fraud s have an affinity.\\nEspecially glad seen in their eye sockets\\nAnd cheeks wrinkled in pleasing grinity,\\nAt the fine effect of the nourishment,\\nWe do not buy, as honest men, but steal,\\nWhile through our protected machinery is sent,\\nThe works I ve pilfer d, the trash in which I deal\\nThe unctuous action of which on our readers.\\nKeeps them swallowing the booky group,\\nIt being cheaper as mental feeders\\nThan the rarer food of a native dupe,\\nWhose original work might meet with failure,\\nIf I dared to publish at my own expense\\nAn American author s work, unknown, obscure.\\nUgh my chums would laugh at me for want of sense\\nWho animated with the same intention.\\nUnite with me to use the bribing tickler\\nTo defeat all measures that mention\\nAn international copyrighting stickler", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. yj\\nAgainst the further continuance\\nOf foreign book pirates, who as a class,\\nInjure our authors who try to advance\\nNative high food against free foreign Hash.\\nThus, the Pirates know the advantage of keeping\\nThe political doors always open,\\nFor, if swung firmly on hinges binding.\\nThe Pirates themselves might have to go often\\nTo the swill-tub of their enemies.\\nWho denounce them as the real traitors\\nOf the developement, and the economies\\nOf native, home discouraged book writers,\\nHASH ON AN ITCHING PALM.\\nHence the quickness of their operations\\nWith bribes to further some special privileges\\nIn Hash regarded as an aliment of the nation,\\nWhose gluten i^good enough, the law alleges,\\nIn its effects so elastic and iungy,\\nTo stretch across to the other side, where\\nIts tenacity, like roasted cheese spongy,\\nReceives the plastic and rotteny care\\nOf the intermediate eaters, who seem.\\nAnd being short of albumen on the brain.\\nKnow that putting an egg in the hand means,\\nThe fibrinous noodle will from them gain\\nA surplus of cash, if they help us\\nTo attack Hash with the point of a fork\\nIf not, the other side will make a muss.\\nAnd call us fit subjects for reproach and retort;\\nFor allowing the Hash of our rivals\\nTo entry the country, without any price\\nPaid as duty on the digestibles\\nWe swallow so freely, and which are so nice\\nIn their assimulant juiciness i\\nMuch better than our own as a relish\\nOurs is too dry, too stale with mustiness\\nHence we must let the home product perish.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nUNISTASIA S SONG OF THE SHIP.\\nYes, notice our ships as they arrive in port\\nFrom their long, long journeys across the sea.\\nIn their white canvass trim of the foreign sort.\\nKnown as English duck EngUsh canvass duckee.\\nWe tax material of every sort\\nBy virtue of our laws to raise revenue,\\nSave yonder trim rigg d ship entering port,\\nWhose canvass of foreign make is bran new.\\nTwas us who forced that ship from a home port away\\nTrying to make a profit from protection,\\nBut in her case, the profit was made to pay\\nOthers against whose goods we ve an objection.\\nSee, she still maintains her place upon the wave.\\nHow her sails, with a siiflT breeze in them full.\\nBend foremast, mizzen, main and stay,\\nBought in a free port of Mr. John Ikill\\nUnder our form, it didn t work it seems,\\nTo give our own sail lofts the demand\\nHer sails to make we only changed the means\\nOf canvassing our ships in foreign lands\\nIn such matters our greed exceeds our judgment;\\nBut each one s thoughts on economy varies\\nSee our protected ships with cheap canvass bent,\\nSpread on yard-arms wide and aloft, where the air is\\nDriving the gallant United States bark\\nInto a home port under a foreign bottom,\\nShowing her owners were justly sharp\\nEvading regulations that would rotten\\nTheir vessels lying idle at the docks,\\nFrom expenses too great to run them.\\nFrom high tariffs on their outfit that mocks\\nTheir moral rights as merchants and freemen.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "LofC", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "OUli AM ERIC AX HASH. lOI\\nWORDS TO STERNER MUSIC SET\\nAs our natioaal dyspepsia of debt\\nIs for us all a great calamit}-.\\nWhose binding pains make tlie people fret\\nOver the strain of too much economy\\nEntailed on all industries taxable,\\nTo furnish the enormous sums to buy\\nBack again our gold bond papericals,\\nSo quickly bought up during the war cry,\\nBy foreigners, at a big discount, to whom\\nEven vet, when- our funds get seriously meddled\\nWith by Hashy financiering, we some\\nOf our new issues scud over to be peddled\\nAmong them for whose prosperity\\nThe sons of liberty slavishly work.\\nAye, for the good of their own posterity\\nWho may have to eat soup with a fork.\\nEor absorption, you know, gives a felicity\\nTo those who draw it from the germ 5\\nOur young life was one of spontaneity,\\nOuick, active, alert, and verv apt to learn\\nOn which side its bread was buttered with sense.\\nTo generalize the quality of the unction\\nWhich has turned rank, in watery recompense\\nGreasing the members of our party function,\\nWhich notably differs from all others\\nIn its Hashy dangers and restrictions,\\nAs we and the other members are brothers\\nSo what we say against them are but fictions\\nEliminated from the big bag of gas\\nWe manufacture from the dirt of scandal,\\nTo drive them out while in we pass\\nAnd rush for the spoils of office with a scramble.\\nWe have said that this complexity\\nIs a composition of our nature,\\nIri these offices to get a fixity\\nBy forcing others out of them, sooner or later.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "Kyi OUR AMERICAN HASTI.\\nWe are numerous to a high degree\\nIn our principles not multifarious\\nWe don t stretch consciences radically\\nAs they do with their rulings various.\\nOur lofty aim is rascals to expel\\nFrom the offices we have no wish to gaia\\nSave through our promises of doing well,\\nOur common country s honor to maintain.\\nFor usurpation isn t with us a special gift\\nWe re incapable of all such high power\\nOf self-importance to give us a lift\\nAbove the people, whom our dodgings lower\\nTo the mutton head consideration\\nOf so many sheep, to whom we are link d by ties\\nOf kindred, of principles and nation,\\nTo fleece them by pulling wool over their eyes.\\nOf honors we are double distilled essences,\\nEach one a purified, conscientious man\\nSleek soothers of religious grievances\\nDescendants of the pious impuritan.\\nWe ve their zealous ideas and their blood\\nThat burns with an intensity of hate\\nAgainst all those who to us don t seem good\\nAnd honest as we ourselves are to the State.\\nFor you see we ve now got the men in position,\\nTo hold back ye fiery steeds with a light rein\\nOf constraints against your free condition\\nYour forefathers fought for seemingly in vain.\\nCOLUMBIA S REBUKE.\\nDear Quilly, stop your talk, that will do its getting too intcrcs\\ning, is this amiable gab of yours about those who feed and are fed tin\\nHash. The culinary regimen is putting rather too much point to your\\ndiscourse. Of all things the most indigestible to me, and which 1\\nmostly detest, is uniting Hash talk with politics.\\nI believe it is, aunt, for here you have good reason to depise\\nit, especially when its effects are significant of nothing but gab, blus-\\nter and buncombe, which have lately been dinned into the public s\\near from partisan newspaper trumpets.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "OVR AMERICAN HASH. KW\\nTrue enough, Quill, such has been the quality of the words uttered\\nabout Monroe Doctrine and Hasli war served up with sauce American,\\nto a friendly power.\\nDo you know the reason, aunty, wiiy it is forced on your attention\\nat the national festival\\nI can t say that 1 do. Quill.\\nWell, aunt, wars only iavor those who supply the instruments of\\ndeath, and, without going into details about the horde of war ghoul\\ncontractors who urge you to fight so as to supply your butcher s shop\\nwith the sanguinary materials of legalized murder, a few of your poli-\\nticians who really have the honor of their common country at heart,\\nare top sirloin steak consumers they eat it rare done, hot from the\\nbroiler. It is this that stirs up the legacy of pluck their forefather^\\nbequeathed to them.\\nYou are very observing. Quill.\\nYes, aunty watchfulness is the parent of security, and I have\\nseen a thing or two in my day, and have felt a sting or two from the\\nlicense of misrule, hence I can tell a nation of people demoralized and\\ndisgraced by Hash policy in its administration of national affairs, from\\none of better quality having substantial beef laws for its people.\\nWell, Quill, I m free to admit that some of my politicians brains\\nare furnished with the materials of juicy joints, but notwithstanding\\ntheir lips are greased with the succulent unction of that which puts\\nvim in them, and makes them feel as willing to act as talk, my politi-\\ncal household is, nevertheless, furnished with a good deal of Hash.\\nSometimes, just before an election, a voice will be heard exhorting a\\ncrowd about the reason of this, and the wherefore of that, in my own\\nand my neighbor s affairs.\\nVery true, aunty, I have heard the Hash demagogue s voice fre-\\n(juently, but generally his ideas of your affairs come not from a good\\narticle of brain food, but seem to arise from the unthinking product of\\nhog meat, whereas those of your rulers who show brighter faculties,\\nand whose gestures on the stump are more self-constrained, I notice\\nhave been fed better, thereby taking good care of their stomach s\\ncleanliness.\\nI think you are churning the sweet milk of flattery for me, Quill,\\nsaid Aunty Columbia.\\nIf deep lukewarm kindness is any proof of the lacteal nourish-\\nment, then there flows a dairy of it creamily rich to thee, warm fr-om\\nthe udders of my heart. Without goodness there is no virtue The\\nmore true one is, the least wicked. So by good management and honor,\\nyour household. Aunty, may some day in the near future occupy a place\\nforemost among the nations of the earth.\\nHooks baited with flattery, Quill.\\nHe who d flatter my freedom-loving aunt, would be too sweet to\\nlive. I must sustain the side of my friend and dear relation, else 1\\nshall be blamed for want of gratitude, for you have nicely trained, care-\\nfully watched and nursed me with diligence and care. For this kind-\\nness to me, dear aunt, you must not be surprised at what I tell you,\\nnor frown at my presumption, to make me fear thee more than love\\nthee. Your nation needs more merit for place and station, more loy-\\nalty and less law but if you must make laws, frame them wisely; you", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "1(4 OUR AMERICAN HASH.\\nwill then manage your household the easier. Before you pass them,\\nhowever, ponder, deliberate, think over them many times, then lay them\\naside awhile as feelers of public opinion. Then take them up again\\nquestion the whys and the wherefores as to the result ere they become\\nlive letters in your statutes; for it is better to win your children over to\\nyou with kindness, than with restrictive birch brooms to threaten,\\ncoerce or abridge their freedom, as they have minds to judge good\\nfrom bad things as well as you.\\nDo stop. Quill dear, you sly rogue, it s too thin I think you are\\nstill churning.\\nAunt, I accept your words as meaning gammon but let my sin-\\ncerity crave pardon for the want of a better one. To tell you I m as\\ninnocent of gammon, as some milk is of cream, is to tell you the\\ntruth. No, dear aunt, my words mean nothing starchy, nothing chalky,\\nnothing watery underneath the curd I churn. True, I ve seen a cow\\nor two, of the famous Durham breed, at pasturage on farm lands in\\nthe valleys where both the buff, the brindle, and the milch, I have\\noften introduced into my landscapes but none among the many cows\\nwhose milk I drank waim from the dugs, during my summer rambles,\\ndrank I of milk, skimmed from the butter of flattery, to oily gammon\\nthee to say Walk into the White House, Quill, your title shall be\\nbe Hash.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cheese it, Quili, cheese it, if you please delait such talk, or you\\nmay set my own thoughts curdling sourily to thee. However, not\\ndenying you freedom of speech, if you will talk, let your genius exhibit\\nitself in some other vein. There seems to be a voice innate within thee\\nvearning to be heard a bubbling fount of patriotic verse unique of\\nrhythm and grotesque in words deep down in the artesian well of thy\\nheart, that might, if they were heard by an oppressed people, rouse\\nthem up to strike a blow for freedom.\\nPossibly, aunt, epics blank of verse, lyrics in quartrains, and\\ncouplets to be dished up in distiches in the corner of a country news-\\npaper, whose editor and proprietor, for the original quality of its con-\\ntributions to the poet s corner, receives from its readers, turnips as\\nyearly subscriptions.\\nYou make me feel an unrest of impatience, Quill dear, to hear\\nthee declaim a couplet. Commence.\\nAunty, thy words of encouragement are to me as sweet as sugar-\\n{jlurns to a ten-year old baby. Listen\\nHe who first condemns his fellow patriot.\\nShall be the first one hung for doing that.\\nQuill, darling, that plucky couplet springs from beef; Hash never\\ncould have felt and uttered it. Now, give me a specimen of the poli-\\ntical stump trumpeter, as you promised.\\nI will, mv dear aunty, provided you look at my gestures and\\ndon t laugh.\\nSuch levity, Quill, would ill become my dignity.\\nWell, then Attention company! ne er a right shoulder shifc\\nwhile yourQuilly, on the Democratic stump, personates a party mouth-\\npiece", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 105\\nQUTLL CHROMO S ORATION.\\nFellow-Countrymen and Fellow-Citizens In the trying neces-\\nsities of our positions, and for the uniform benefit of our opinion of\\nthings in general, 1 break up in my hands these small pieces of\\nchopped meat, as you see, to show you the black Republican process\\nof making Hash of the States, with restrictive dodges of society\\nghouls, and effete, old world defunct laws, etc., etc., etc.\\nThese measures and restraints are but a part of the attempt to elevate\\ntheir dignity, as they suppose, and to bring us down to the abject servitude\\nof tyranny. Their laws, regulations, measures and restrictions, are for\\nthe people, and the powers vested in them, solely for themselves.\\nNow, of this power and their movements, we must be watchful, for\\nthey have declared it openly on the stump, in their platforms, iu cabi-\\nnets of counsel and through the medium of their partisan newspaper\\norgans, that a stronger government is needed. Now, we are more\\nthan one who must make a bold stand against these conspirators. The\\npublic spirit is our safeguard. It kills ingratitude in the heart of\\ncovert fraud, and shows the country cannot long be governed with\\ninjustice. No, my countrymen, before their egotism of tyranny, we must\\nnot shrink, for ignoring theirs, we want no power except that which\\nis vested in ourselves. We, the people, are the individuals who make\\nand maintain the right. As good citizens we want no change\u00e2\u0080\u0094 no\\nchange is needed where hcedum is assured. But it seems there is\\namong us an ambitious class whose aim it is to stir up factious hatreds\\nto render insecure our independence, so that they mav sit as tyrants\\nwhere Freedom reigns.\\n[A voice Buliy for you hit em again.\\nNow, my countrymen and fellovv-taxpayers, shall the nation be any\\nlonger misgoverned by a class of men who are only faithful to them-\\nselves.^ a lot of quill-shank schoolmasters, who, having taught little bovs\\ntheir A., B. C, got it into their noddles to make a new departure in quest\\nof government positions, so that they could teach us big boys, political\\n^ynlax and prosody. But it mostly follows, that instead of getting\\nscholars they get dunces, for we d rather be flogged than learn their\\nhoc juvat, as when a boy goes into a big orchard to steal apples and\\npears, his efforts seldom prove 7\u00c2\u00ab /less. Now, whatever we do, we\\nmust not take them for a pattern. Those who walk on the good way\\nnever go wrong. So, our former honesty is our surety to make all\\nupright, and every man free and alike duteous to his government.\\n[V^oiccs Hear, hear.\\nYes, my friends and fellow-countrymen, ever since the black Re-\\npublicans went into power, we have become more numerous but far\\nless strong, for they have covered the land with debt from one end of\\nit to the other. They have issued various kinds of bills whose bonded\\ninterest has encouraged laziness among the people, and the security\\nfor the redemption ol which, is an assurance to the holders thereof\\nthat they intend to continue the enormous tax bleed. Failing in\\nthis, they would be the first to repudiate, as they have not a single\\ndollar they can call their own. The nation is existing on credit and\\n])romises to pay; and if it had not been for our own generous sacri-", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "J", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. 107\\nfices lo preserve it, during the late rebellion, new frontiers would now\\nbe staked out and fortified with a Confederate race of Secessionists.\\nFor it was us who saved the nation from a dissolution, and not\\nthey.\\n[Voices Aye, aye. Bravo bravo\\nThis news, my friends, may be to them an item for astonishment.\\nBut it is well that our posterity should be the gainer by the memory\\nof Democratic pluck amid the nation s trials and privations. This\\nmakes our actions the more glorious, subduing the enemy on the field\\nof battle, and snubbmg the enemy in the big political camp at Wash-\\nington.\\nYes, my countrymen and fellow-citizens, the battle of freedom has\\nagain been won by us it redounds to our credit, for we have covered\\nourselves with glory on every field, whilst they in authority wrangled\\nover the spoils, dispensed to their favorites, their cousins, uncles and\\nnephews, political offices, and decorated shysters with the military titles\\nof generals, captains and lieutenants, etc., etc.\\n[Voices Shame! shame!]\\nNow, my hearers, what is your opinion of the party known as\\nblack Republican, whose execrable name has blackened the history of\\nthe States with bloodshed, villainy and tyranny?\\n[Voices Bloats, hogs, tyrants a bad lot.]\\nYes, my friends, nothing do we hear of them that is good to advance\\nthe nation s dignity. They call themselves our superiors in honesty\\nand knowledge. Now, this egotism of theirs they turn to profit as\\nbribe-receiving legislators our superiors, eh I\\n[Laughter and broad grins.]\\nNow, their hearts cant be good if their actions are wicked, can thev,\\nmv hearers\\n[Voices Not by a long shot. J\\nNow, my countrymen and fellow-citizens, because a man is inflated\\nwith Hash, does it show stability of character Not at all. In that\\ncondition he may be presumptous a big man in a small house, but\\nhe s only a bloat, nevertheless, with a weak nature. Such a disposition\\nhas never vet shown any true traits of nobleness in its character. The\\nshop don t make the tradesman, its the reverse. In choosing, judge\\nwhat he is himself whether or not he is open and fair in his dealings,\\nfor he buys and sells character as well as goods the quality of the one\\nis as well known as the other. Both the shopkeeper and the customer\\nacquire their knowledge of each other by contact and conduct.\\nHere, then, my countrymen, is another item of astonishment with\\nwhich to gage the Republican party s reputation for justice. vStep\\nbv step they have encroached upon our rights. Recently, with re-\\nstrictive rules and regulations, they have violated one of the most\\nsacred of .all our privileges the mail facilities, over which they sit as\\npaternal guardians, spotting, smelling, prying into the nature and\\ncontents of our communications with a familiarity as if our letters were\\ntheirs. Could the espionage of tyranny go further? Shall such a sys-\\ntem in our glorious Republic be tolerated, encouraged Shall our\\nmeans be drawn from us to maintain such an inquisition in the hands\\nof bold imitators of tyrants who are only fit to clean shoes for gentle-\\nmen Here, where the sunlight shines fairer \u00c2\u00aen knowledge,", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "m OUR AMERICAJV HASR.\\nfreedom and truth, shall we Unistasians, go back to the dark days of\\nobscurity and pine in serfdom\\n[A voice No, no it can t be done\\nNo, m\\\\ friends, they are mistaken in their vain clamors of reform\\nand retrenchment, which is but another cant plirase for public plun-\\nder. See here, again, is another item for astonishment a most adroit\\nfleecing dodge of theirs they call protective tariffs and silver bills.\\nNow, my fellow-countrymen and citizens, these so-called protective\\nmeasures are only blinds to victimize the masses as consumers. For\\never since their enforcement, we have been obliged to pay enormous\\nsums for every article we use or wear, either domestic or foreign at\\nleast from twenty-five to a hundred per cent, more than they are really\\nworth. As proof of this look at us what pretty specimens of free\\nAmericans we are to be sure See us, the shabbiest dressed people on\\nearth, paying enormous sums for the imported and not much less for\\ntiie shoddy, domestic stuff which latter, even when it is new, being all\\nshine and no wear, makes it too dear at any price. Now, don t this\\nseem to you, my countrymen, more like a privilege conferred upon us\\nby protective Hash lawmakers, as to what we shall, and shall not, wear,\\nbuy, consume a tyrannical abuse of authority over a free people an\\noutcrop of insolence and ignorance in high places.? But this is only\\none sample of the protection a victimized people get from the sterile,\\nabsurd, execrable party in power, who are throughout the civilized\\nworld destroying the free and good name of their country who are\\nworking against the beauty and enlightenment of free principles in\\ntrade, as well as in thought, speech and ideas who are according not\\nwith the prime advancement of beef in this energetic age of slaughtered\\nbullock and steer, for the country in general, the whole country, our\\nwidely extended, north, east, west and south, great, big, roomy\\ncountry.\\n[Voices Hi, hi, hi hip, hip, hurra Tiger\\nNow, the question comes home to us, it comes right here to us,\\njust where we stand must our country be ruined, disgraced with\\noppressive and restrictive laws and regulations through the machina-\\ntions of men who have been, by the bribing reins of scheming shod-\\ndyites and others, tilted over into the political circus ring at Wash-\\nington, to ride the horse Protection for them. Must beef laws of\\ngood, sound, old Democracy be the rider to save Freedom s tottering\\nnag of bony states from final dislocation, dismemberment, disruption,\\nalas now hobbling on the road to the western star of Empire, or shall\\nRepublican Hash still be the name of the jockey that will eventually\\nride the wind-broken, spavin sprained, botched, foundered, one-eyed,\\nold Union horse to the devil\\n[Voices No, no it shall not be. We ll wade through swamps of\\nHash, ave, dismal swamps of Hash, knee deep, ere that event of\\nsquelching the Union shall come to pass in review before us, Mr.\\nSpeaker.\\nGood, my friends, good It shows where your heads are level.\\nCustom, like a chest-of-drawers, stands in a corner, and the change-\\nableness of time is not discernible on its outside, which may be pol-\\nished and varnished. It is onlv when it is removed that we can see\\nhow much it is worn. This removal is what the Republicans fear.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN HASH. lO J-\\nNow, generally, a thief, Avhen he steals anything runs away, but these\\nmen rob by rule and take no flight, adding audacity to peculation.\\nBut, aside from these defects in their characters, which the opportunity\\nand event have shown us, occasionally, they get inflated wiih buncombe,\\nand brag about that which we may forgive but never forget. Liars\\nshould have good memories, but these forget themselves, as they are not\\nsparing of their falsehoods. For, in and out of oflice, the cheeky brag-\\ngarts continue to crow like dunghill roosters over the Southern game-\\ncock whose feathers we combed with loyal, Democratic spurs, at the\\nlate main.\\n[Voices Bully for you hit em again.\\nAnd yet, again, my hearers, countrymen and citizens, what are\\nRepublicans.? What are they made of.?\\nHash\\nYes, my fellow-countrymen, they are made of Hash of dirty\\nHash inwardly, with a pretentious clean outside worn as a disguise a\\nblind for respectability for every one knows, that knows anything at\\nall of his country s political history, that they are the refuse of all other\\n])arties a sort of political garbage, which must be put into a Demo-\\ncratic scow. -and dumped over on Muck Island, at the next presiden-\\ntial election. P or if we don t do it, then who knows what may or may\\nnot follow Therefore, let us be prudent and abide our time. Let\\nus canvass our strength and convince our erring friends who have\\njoined them, the necessity of a change in the government of the country,\\nelse, as it has been, so far, Hash Republicanism will still continue to\\nbe your covert enemy for it confiscates your property to robbery; it\\ntampers with your rights and privileges social, civil and commercial\\nin a word, your freedom, so called, under its authority, is nothings\\nmore nor less than a yoke of Autocracy in disguise.\\nNow, my friends, I must tell you seriously that the permanency of\\nthis species of Absolutism in our land, is the great danger to which we\\nare exposed. But before you lose heart, of this be assured, to its\\nauthority, its usages and abuses we must not submit. Tyranny is a\\npower that forces itself upon a good nature, but when it causes others\\nto suff er, it is no longer a power, as the weak and down-trodden by it,\\nasserting their rights fearlessly, forces it to succumb. Thus the power\\nof tyranny is weakened when the spirits of the oppressed are strong.\\nTherefore, my friends, fellow-countrymen and citizens, in conclud-\\ning my speech, I would say, that when a man loses his means and his\\nliberty, he loses ,that which is dear to him, and rather than both of\\nthese blessings, or even one of them, s nould be taken from you by\\npolitical tyrants and pilferers, who are as greedy of small fish as rav-\\nenous sharks, you will show true courage in brave souls by taking a firm\\nhold of the black Republican chain, and breaking it, link by link,\\ninto smithereens of scrape-iron, that it may rust, it is hoped, forever\\nunder ground. Such is the remedy, my attentive hearers, for the evils\\nwe endure.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "no OUR AMERICAN HASH\\nCOLUMBIA IN TEARS.\\nNow, what do you think ot my tongue-talk speechified, as a speci-\\nmen of spread eagle oratory, my freedom loving aunt?\\nAlas! my poor country, thou art wearing the black drape i f\\n-misfortune for the death of Freedom.\\nDear aunt, don t be affected. Let there be more smiles on thy\\n,lip3 than tears in thine eyes. I didn t intend to rouse thy feelings to\\nthe sobbin^ point. Here, take this piece of starry bunting and wipe\\nyour peepers dry. What do you think of my speech, aunty\\nMuggins alas thou art ob.scured from the precious light of\\n.heaven Oh it is a great misfortune\\nDear me, have I touched my aunty s heart.\\nYou have Quill, but youve not lost my friendship.\\nWell, judge the fault as mine, aunty, and let thy emotions cease\\nto flow through affected channels. We ll yet take the good, old ship\\nDemocracy from the bank on which she lies stranded, and with fair\\nconvincing winds of truth whispered in the nation s ear, bring her safely\\ninto port again.\\nOf thy wisdom and eloquence, Quill, I am convinced. You must\\nforo-ive me, darling nephew. I was too seriously occupied with my\\n6 \\\\vn feelings, to answer your questions promptly.\\nNo apology is necessary, dear aunt. You are a woman with a big\\niheart, and that can beat independent of your brains.\\nWell, nephew, without asking me again about your speech, I\\nmust admit there is a great deal of merit in it, and a good deal of truth\\ntoo, and I being the one mostly interested, I couldn t help but feel\\nthe effect of your eloquence and declamation, although the frantic\\nway in which you moved your arms and body, appeared to me, as if\\n.some one had struck you with a sausage. However, taking it by the\\nword, the oration can have my opinion as being a masterly effort of\\nf)ne who has never studied to acquire glory on the rostrum a la Cicero\\nand Demosthenes. All honor to you, Quill, the credit is thine for\\nwhat you ve said, is alas too true, how\\nThe Republicans make laws, but the liberty\\nThey take with those laws, in my young days,\\nSeems like the progress of instability.\\nBut my new craft is original in many ways\\nYes, aunt, the Rep ubs. have .shown great force of activity,\\nA high pressure power of taxing extreme,\\nWhose superior quality of liberty\\nIs but one of the blessings we gain\\nFrom the butter of organized rations\\nOn Unistasia s big slice of earth spread,\\nPolitically ours as compensations\\nFrom their national bakers of party bread.", "height": "3437", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "OUR AMERICAN UA H,\\nTo further our progress economic\\nTo daily consume tlie native product\\nTo increase our knowledge politic\\nTo learn civility and good conduct.\\n1 know, Quill, you ve got your aunty courage,\\n(R. ting me on the back in tender extreme,)\\nI understand your mission you young sage\\nThe true ideas of what your talents mean.\\n(jo, let your voice be heard in the land without a king,\\nEre it bcomes the most prodigious of all kingdoms,\\nGo, afiirm the people s independence with shouts\\nThroughout every State of Columbia s group\\nShout glory! Liberty it may to you bring\\nNinety-cent silver dollars in large sums\\nIf not, the mingling of yours with the noises of mouths\\nI\\\\Iay give you the lockjaw or the croup.\\nPAINTED AND FRAMED.\\nSo I went and addressed the people against a power\\nCentralized to abridge their freedom\\nBut the effects of it soon tended my jaws to lower,\\nWhich are now by silence overcome\\nTo say no more. I m done, I m done. I ve done\\nMy .satirical picture in Hash colors\\nLaid on the canvass. I think, with some truth\\nOf a prime daub new to my cousinly brothers\\nV\\\\ ho will in the drawing see, if they look,\\nFair figures of Liberty, religion and language.\\nAnd great national trees on the new world s high way,\\nThough growing in separate States, yet prospering to engagc-\\nTheir linked boughs twiningly together, say\\nAs a bower for man s freedi:)m and security.\\nTHE ENn.", "height": "3454", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "ouramericanhashs00dagn_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "(JRil POEMS, EPIC, LYRICAL m NIRRITIVE,\\nALREADY PUBLISHED.\\nDAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF THE SHENANDOAH.\\nFounded on the Late Rebellion. By John M. Dagnall.\\nOne Vol., 12mo, 167 pp., Cloth Binding. Twenty-six Illustrations. Price, TSCculs\\nIf any Englishman should ask us now who writes an American poem? we\\nshould triumphantly answer, John M. Dagnall. Boston Transcript.\\nANOTHER This is an affectionate and well-written tribute to the genius of\\nAmerican Liberty. Never did the nation stand in greater need of one endowed\\nvyith the talent of expressing the spirit of those troublous times.\\nTHE MEXICAN OR, LOVE AND LAND.\\nFounded on the Late Invasion of Mexico by tub Fpjench.\\nBY JOHN M. dagnall.\\nOne Vol., 16mo, 228 pp., Cloth Binding. Fourteen Illustrations. Price, $1.00.\\nCOMMENTS: Tlie Mexican, is a descriptive, patriotic poem of high merit.\\nThe incidents are arranged with judgement, and described with great force and\\niK auty of diction in the most original, varied and melodious of blank verse. It\\nis an inspired poem, breathing the true poetic spirit, and induces us to wish thnt\\niVIr. Dagnall will be spared many years to come, to do such work as he has shown\\nlie is so eminently competent to do in beauty of thought and language.\\nENGLAND NOT DEAD, TURK AND BKITON, SCENES IN CUMBERLAND.\\nPoems founded on Recent Events in Eukope and the Autistic Ramble.s\\nOF THE Author, John M. Dagnall.\\nStyle lyrical and epical tone^patriotic, artistic, sentimental and humomtis.\\nIn one vol. 8vo, 128 pages. Price, 75 cents. London Edition. 1878.\\nThe volume of poems before lis proves that all the remarkable poets are not\\ndead. Robinson s Epitome of Literature. (Phila.)\\nSince the sweet singer of Michigan issued her initial volume and woke the\\npoetic echoes of a listening world, there has been nothing that we know of tf\\ncompare with the work entitled England Not Dead, Turk and Briton. Also.\\nScenes in GnmharliMid. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Bridgeport Standard.\\nSONG LYRICS IN THE BUCOLIC OF SCENES IN CUMBERLAND\\nWhere Scenes arc Glowing Amid Fair Nature Where is Flora Nature s Own\\n(iirl Brook Bound Gone to Nod Land His Bngle ever Sonorical Hours pas^sed\\non Earth The Fair Girl s Unfair Opinion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Nice Pair of Gaiters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Stream\\nimd Glade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Streams Run Dry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 If a Bird I Were\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Love s Journey.\\nCOPIES MAILED, POST PAID, ON RECEIFF OF THE PRICE.\\nNOTICE. -Book Agents, public or private, will be supplied\\nwith complete sets, or any number of one of the author s works,\\nat the wholesale rate, namely: twenty-five per cent less than\\nthe published price. All orders and communications are re-\\nquested to be forwarded to the author and publisher s post-\\noffice address, namely:\\nJOHN M. DAGNALL\\nto the author and publisher s i\\nC 32 89 ^i\\nP. o: Box \\\\SX Brooklyn, N. 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