A TEXAS SUMMER SONG.
Did you ever hear of ? drought, A regular Texas stew ? No ! then I'll invoke my panting muse And issue a verse or iwo. Thermometer ninel-y at nine. Ond hundred decrees ai; four, And ninety again ao nine p.m. For a full month or more. So hoi; that you fall asleep Over the news by mail — That a cow can't low or a chicken crow Or a watchdog wag his tail. So hot that men don't speak In a healthy, ratuvol tone, But greet as they meet >n tbe dusty street With a scarcely audible groan. A staggering zooater reels After a strasti'ucb fly, And a hog just winks at an ear of corn Which chances to lie near by. Not a drop of dew by night, Not a. drop of vaia by dpy j The wells and cisterns are going dry, And the eveeks Jibve run away.
— Galveston News.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 4
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153A TEXAS SUMMER SONG. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 4
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