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A Crusher

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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[A so-called poot senda us tlie followiqg very aflfecting verse. It may picase some, someit will not picase. Ifyou Hke it read it, if you don't, don't read it]: Kind frienda ifyou'll listen III tell you átale Of a city near lv whose fate wc bewail, It's daiidys, each 0ü6t by hímself wasarusher Aud to work up some business They bought a Btone crusher. To ?rind rocks and pavestreets, ah tlien they did trill, Kut now the poor erusher lies under the lnll. The greal stone crusher; The City's stoue crusher; The dust covered crusher down under thehill. When on agreatjaunt they were showna real daisy. Which once put in motion would set peo pie cruz v: Aud crazy they got, and for it they sent, And sincë then they surely have had time to reien t : Ah, sad was inte, and bitter the plll. When they purchased the crusher down ander the hill. The huge stone crusher; The City's sume crusher; The dust covered crusher down uuder the hill. The months have slowly passed away Since the crusher was bronght to toivii, Bul some how or other it don't woiu, that's plain, And nnder the hill it has silently lain One thing it did do. and that with will It crushed many hard dollars that made up the blll Paid for that noble stone crusher so silent and ■Mil. The fine stone crusher; The City's stone crusher; The dust covered crusher down under thehill. The crusher still holds its place under the hill, 'ío silent and ghostly, as to briug forth a chill, Tis a monumeut of s'brewdness, the couneil so thought, 3ut only mísgivings has the 'tamal thing brouht : ts laurels have vanished, of its pride it is sliorn. Vnd loctks 1 i ke au earthquake, all tattered and torn 3ut oh what huge sights and regrets it brings still, This dandy stone crusher down under the lili 1. The fancy stone crusher; The City's wone crnsher; The dust covered crusher down under tlie hill. Now a bright thought has struck us, Vnd we believe it near right Sell thta silent stone crusher and thus end the eight; Let a poultry man buy it to griiut bones íor his fowls, And sit by and laugh, when it gets up and hovvls. It is warranted to grind, and its mission ful011: So farewell to the crusher down under the hill. The hard-head stone crusher; The City's stone crusher; The dust covered crusher down under the hill. Or perhaps it wonld be better Jo put the machine at work, And not -ve [ts enemies a chance to smile ;i!it smirk, Every time the thing is talked aout. And the ruts in the roads pointed out. Set it to grinding, Bet it to crusblng, And don't be afrald f too rapidly rushing Tbat miehty stone orusher; The City's stone crusher; Tlie dust eoveied crusher down under the hill.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier