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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 192, 12 October 1871, Page 7

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THE "ARKANSAW CATS.

In a new voluinn of American poems we find tto following veraion of the Kilkenny eata :- There was a man in Arkansaw

As let his passions rise, And not unfrequently picked out Some other varmint's eyes. His name was Tusoaloosa Sam, And often he would Bay, " There's not a cuss i-n Arkansas

I c-.vn't whip any day." One morn a stranger passin' by HeHrd Siunmy talkin' bo. Whim dowu he scrambled from hiahosg* And off his coat did go. "My hoy,*' says he, "it's toy belief, Whomever you may be, That I kitt make you screech and smell Partikler agony." They clenched like fctf o rampageous bears, And then went down a bit , They swore a stream of six inch oaths, And fit, and fit, and fit. And so the " fit, and fit. and fit " on through ten stanzas, until, = jist at cock-crow, suddently, There came an awful pause, -And I and my old man ran out To ascertain the cause.

The sun was rising: ifc the yeast, And lit the hull concern, But not a sign of either chap Was found at any turn. Yet in the region where they fit, We found, to our surmise, One pint of huttons, two big knives, Some whiskers, aud four eyes !