Jamestown [N.D.] Weekly Alert (Apr. 19, 1888):


There was an old bum, and he had a wooden leg,
And he had no tobacco, nor tobacco he could beg.
He had an old pard, who was as cunning as a fox,
Who always had tobacco in his old tobacco box.

Says he to his pard - "Would you give me a chew?"
"No," says his pard, "I'll be d----d if I do.
Drink rink less whiskey and save up your rocks,
And you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box."

                                     --[Yancey, Poet