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SONGSTER. 161
Now Jackson is goin to fight de French,
.\nd lie wants de sojers dat neber will flinch;
And I'se a going to get some glory.
And when 1 gets back Pll tell you de story.
So clar de kitchen, &c
I went to de caravan to see de fun.
An J dere was a nigger, beatin on de drum;
And what you tink dat I see then,
Why de lion went into de keeper's den i
So clar de kitchen, &c.
De elephant den lay on the ground,
And a man walked over him safe and sound ;
And de lion put his head in de man's dinner hole,
And de monkeys stirr'd de people up with a long pole
So clar de kitchen, &c.
Battle of Plattsburg-.
Sir George Prevost, with all his host>
March'd forth from Montreal, sir.
Both he and they, as blithe and gay.
As going to a baU, sir;
The troops he chose, were all of those
That conquer'd Marshal Soult, sir,
Who, at Garonne (the fact is known)
Scarce brought them to a halt, sir.
With troopo like these, he thought witli ease
To crush the Yankee faction ;
His only thought, was how he ought
To bring them into action.
Your very names, sir George exclaims,
Without a gun or bayonet
WUl pierce like darts, through Yankee hearts,
An^ fill toftir snirits stagnate.