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For the Columbian Fountain


ROOT BEER.


BY JAMES LITTLE.


AIR The Cork Leg.
A very great noise is flying about,
IT'S not Of gin Holland, nor Of Brown Stout,
But a kind of drink, some innocent say,
Whilst others TO this cry out OK.


Ri tooral ooral, &c.
The Assembly has condemned its use
Among the old, the young, and spruce,
And to try to get it there is no use,
For the bo-hoys can't find out an excuse.


Ri tooral, looral, &c.
What is this stuff, so seemingly rare2
III tell you at once without any fear,
We call it in town-ah, ah oh dear?
BY the beautiful name Of Root Beer.


Ri tooral, looral, &c.
Some do contend twill intoxicate,
Whilst others that tits only bait,
But 10 settle the question I'll relate -.
What it did TO certain old pate.


Ri tooral, looral, &c.
There was an old man so fond of the stuff,
That Keplar himself couldn't give him enough,
Day by day he could be seen TO pop in,
Pop down the root beer, then pop out again.


Ri tooral, &C.
From tavern to tavern along he'd run,
Till in short time he drank full tun,
Then stopping to blow, commenced new
tour, H
But the taverns were out, he couldn't get more.


Ri tooral, &c.
What he should do now was all in mist,
For without his root beer he couldn't exist.
/" must have it, /" said he, g or somethie as
My stomach's collapsing, oh deaf! oh dear p


<a Ri tooral, SC.
The beer being gone, he tho't of cold water,
As he put 10 his lips a glass of po-porter,
He thought too, of his pledge, and trembled all
DER,


But in less than ten minutes he lay on the
floor. Ri tooral, &c.
The men in the house looked at each other.
And with laughter all were ready to smother,
"There'S temp'rance man." said one with a
jeer,


'Drunk as old Bacchus-hurra! for root beer!'


Ri tooral, &c.
Beware Of root beer, for 'tis a sure bait
For all kinds of liquors that intoxicate,
Like other compounds il will eferyesce,
Fly into your head-oh, Y E S.


Ri tooral, &c.
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., June 90, 1916.