The Fat Missionary

[The Washington Capital thus recites thrmigh a ooatributor the woos of the Kev. Olews Bacon, nsissioaary:] It was all in a forè-and-an nehoonnr 'l'lüit he saücd to tïiat fax rountree, And, acoording to Captain Siiuuiiusou, It waa Usuitiful for to BW How wannly tho heathen weloomed lüni, And how gratcfnl thoy socmed to be, And h'-nv, in thelr Himple, Innocent way They patted him, how on bla knee, An i uow on hin ehoek, and now on bis cliin, Am!, in short, made only too free With the Beverend Olera Bacon, As wai Bent lipón a caiflaloD To the islandw near Feejee. But T hare an affldaTlt Captain Slmmineon tooi afore me, (Anl Simminsoa Ifl b Chrlstian man), ïiow itandin' that night on Iiík toe, And a-svearing up hip canyaa All rcady to put to sca, He noticed a fïre on tlie leland As was buraln' romarkiibly free; But ti-' had no ido thoso dovlla Were makin' a frtoaaaee Of tbr Boverend Oleus Baoon Am waa sent apon amimlon To tlio ishmdfl near Kcejeo. But so it türned out; and tlicrcforo I aay As Simniinson aaid to me, lf the Board of Foreign Míbsíoub Had any oyen for to nee Tüey'd ÖCver havo unit man out (here A miKwionary for to be, The uiakr of whoae person vm bemptiag In the very least degree. Or one hk was anyways bnlgy at all, Htill lesK, oiip :ik blgy is he; ThiH Reverend Oleus Bacou Afl was sent npon a niission To the ielanda near Feejee. However, the Lord was In It, At least, so it Beeme to me; Or Bomething was in Mr. Bacon Asdldn't at all aree With the Btomaohs of those lieathen men, But nade 'eni throw up quite free; Aud I happen to know what that Bomething wan, It was oavendlafa and rappee! Nevertheleïs, it was aomewhat nnfortunate, As niOHt auy man may ser, That the Reverend Oletw Baoon Ever Btarted on that miasion To the lfllanda near Feejee,