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Identifier: bookofroyalblue17balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he pavements and floors and the walls and the doors, All attest what a cheek he has got.When a lady her dress she beholds with distress. He has spoiled, she might say, with a pout:Dear St. Patrick, come quick, hit his head with a brick; Hes a snake we could well do without. Theres the knight of the mill, who the claret would spill, That should properly stay in the nose;Though immense he may be, yet a better than he Is the mule with his back-handed blows.For the animals kick would the boxer make sick And remove his temptation to spout —Wise St. Patrick, please sweep him out into the deep; Hes a snake we could well do without. Theres the dude: the coquette; the societys pet, Who seems made but to dance and to dine;And the girl with the uphcir and the fraud with the tear And the boaster with lies superfine;Theres the boy that is bad and the youth that is sad As he loiters and lounges about —Good St. Patrick, come down, everyone of them drown; They are snakes we could well do without.
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BEAUTIFUL SANDUSKY. BY T. B. TUCKER. BY royal charter of Charles II in 1662the two small colonies of Connecticutwere consolidated and dominion ex-tended westward to the Pacific Ocean, oras it was then called, South Hea. This ficklemonarch had the absolute rifjht to makegrants and annul or change them at hispleasure, and he continually exercised itand often abused it. These grants wereinvariably made from sea to sea to annulany rival claims of France or Spain. In citizens who had suffered by fire and pillagefrom liritish soldiers during the Revolu-tionary War. These lands, now embracedin Erie, Huron and part of Ottawa Counties,became known as the firelands and includethe present site of Sandusky. At this time Sandusky, known as OgontzPlace, was entirely inhabited by a tribe ofOttawa Indians, whosewigwams, composedof poles and bark, studded the bay. Theirchief, Ogontz, was a man of some ability

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