Typed as
spelled and written
Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth year - Number 56
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907
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Thanksgiving Ode.
The
following lines are gifted pen of Mrs. L. McDonald Berry of this city and were
penned for the occasion of Thanksgiving dinner at the Majestic:
Thanksgiving
"As I'm a humble citizen
In politics unskilled,
I never thought such juicy plums
Should in my lap be spilled.
"Yet, we to-day in council meet,
And Turkey we'll divide.
And each shall have a goodly slice,
With Greece, too, on the side.
"In China we'll participate,
And Hungary defeat,
And old Oporto we will down,
That mostly can't be beat.
"Ask not if the division's just;
The question sorely hurts,
But any one can plainly see
We're getting our deserts.
"This cause we have for gratitude;
Tho' humble be our birth,
We thus can meet in peacefulwise
And gobble up the earth.
- L. McD. B.
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