The Gungawamp Gazette

I love to get my paper from the country every week;

That wayback, country paper, all so newsy, yet so meek;

It tells me of the “doings” of my old-time social set;

O, yes, a lively paper, the Gungawamp Gazette.

For “Andy Jenks has bought a cow,”

“Ezekiel Riggs has killed his sow,”

     And “Jones is making cider”;

“The farmers have begun to plough,”

And “Mrs. Lamb is stopping now,

     With Mrs. Jason Snyder”.

Ah, yes, I love that paper with its batch of weekly news;

And its column every Saturday I eagerly peruse;

And who would cease to take it when such priceless things they’d miss?

For every week it’s solid full of paragraphs like this:

“Jedd Stubbs took off the turkey prize,”

“Seth Green has started hewing ties,

     For Deacon Amos Riddle”;

“The band has busted, we surmise,

And rumor says that Cyrus Wise

     Has purchased him a fiddle.”

That dear old country paper, may it never never die;

It wakes such tender memories of days long flitted by;

It tells of joys and sorrows; of the ones who pass above,

And chronicles the “doings” of the girls I used to love.

For “Jared Brown has froze’ his heels,”

And “there are twins at Jonas Beal's,”

     And “Susan Dowd is ailing”;

“The misses Todd have bought them wheels,”

“John Jones is shingling at O’Neil’s,”

     With “colds and croup prevailing.”

Jan. 12, 1895

Pub. in Boston

Courier, Jan. 20,

    1895