GENERAL GARFIELD’S CAREER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2109, 26 November 1880, Page 3

GENERAL GARFIELD’S CAREER.

During the late election for the American Presidency a highly effective adaptation of the autobiographical ballad of the First Lord of the Admiralty in “ Pinafore ” was written, having as the hero General Garfield. It begins “ When he was a lad he served a term On a big canal with a boatman’s firm ; With a heart so free, and a will so strong. On the towpath drove two mules along ; And he drove those mules so oarefullee He’s a candidate now for the Presidenoee, As a driver boy he made such a mark He came to the deck of the inland barque, And all of the perils to boat and crew He stood at the helm and guided thro*. He stood at the helm so manfullee He's a candidate now for the Presidenoee.

He did so well with the helm and the mules, They made him a searcher of district schools; And when from college in a bran new suit, A Greek professor at the Institute, Where Greek and Latin he taught so free He’s a candidate now for the Presidenoee.” The song traces General Garfield's history through ten stanzas, and closes in this moral and improving strain : “ Now boys who cherish ambitious schemes, Though now you may be but drivers of teams, Look well to the work you may chance to do, And do it with a band that is kind and true. Whatever you do, do it faithf ullee, And you may aspire to the Presidenoee.”