A Snake In The Grass

Come, listen awhile to me, my lad, Come, listen to me for a spell ! Let that terrible drum For a moment be dumb, For your únele is going to teil Wliat befell A youth who loved liquor too well. A clever young man was he, my lad, And with, beauty uncommonly blessed, Ere with brandy and wine He began to decline, And behaved Uke a person possessed ; I protest The temperauce plan is the best. One evening he went to a tavern my lad, He went to a tavern, one night, And drinking too much Kum, Brandy, and such, The chap got exceedingly "tight;" And was quite What your auat would entitle a "íright," The fellow fell tato a snooze, my lad ; 'Tis a horrible slumber he takes - He trembles with fear, And acts very queer; Mv eyes ! how he shivers and shakes When he wakes, And raves about horrid great snakes i 'Tis a warning to you and to me, my lad ; A particular caution to all - Though no one can see The viper but he - To hear the poor lunatic bawl, "How they crawl ! AH uver the floor and the wall f" Next morning he took to his bed, my lad, Next morniug he took toliis beil ; And he never got up, To diñe or to sup, Though properly physiced and bled ; And I ;ead Nejct day the poor fellow was dead. You've heard of the snake in the grass, ray lad- Of the viper eoncealed in the grass ; But now you must know, Man's deadliest foe ís a snake of a difterent class : Alas!- Tis the viper that lurks in the glam.