AMERICAN DEFINITION OF A SCAB.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 18, 20 November 1913, Page 4

AMERICAN DEFINITION OF A SCAB.

“ After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal, with a corkscrew soul, a water-logged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where other people have their hearts he carries a tumour of rotten principles. When the scab comes down the street honest men turn their backs, the angels weep tears in heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to scab as long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a Cope long enough to hang his carcase with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a scab, for, after betraying his Master, he had enough character to hang himself, and a scab has not,”