Historical Wyoming County April 1959 - Old Fulton History

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Page 78 April 1959 These verses were published in 1855 during the excitement incident to the appearance of the Silver Lake Sea Serpent, and are sub-titled "The Snaik' s Reply to Joab Beeswax," Now Joab, I will do my life, "Uncaring Consequences" I've got a man from Pike to act As my amanuensiso You're right old Beeswax, I'm the brute Who once hob-nobbed with Adam, And in the garden gave the fruit That mistified his madam. * The same old Serpent St. John saw Chained down In degregation A thousand years, for which please see The Book of Revelation. There in the Euxine mud I lay Unseen by man or maiden Till frightened up in Silver Lake By Crimean canonading I gnaw the wheat and milk the cows, While farmers take their nooning, And raise the very duce with boys Who are out dark nights a cooning. I gobble up the pickerel And pouts beside me swimming But never swallow yearling bulls, Or old unmarried women. I cannot stop to call on friends, But whisper to these coots Who drink my health in Schiedam Schnapps They r ll find me in their boots. Lately hear one Daniel Smith A bloody minded whaler, Has come to catch me with his boat And a crew of dirty sailors. One glance from out my fiery eyes Would scorch his crew to cinders, Or one blow from my scaly tail Would knock his boat to finders, (continued on page 79)
April 1959 SNAIX (cont.) So now beware my prowess dead, Ye who my lake environ I'll not be caught by baited hook Nor patent lily-iron. No', not till skies shall fall, and Earth Be to its center shaken Shall the great Snaik of Silver Lake, And Sevastopol be taken. But when at last "my pipe is out," In spite of kicks and curses,- Then Beeswax you shall "take my hat" In payment for your verses. You'll send my hide to Barnum then, To gratify the nation, And I shall make in heaven the fifth Great snaky constellation. Page 79 - Western New-Yorker, Sept. 18£5 Genesee County Convention Feb. 9, 1819, Batavia (The Moscow Advertiser and Genesee Farmer, Livingston County, N.Y., carried notice of this gathering in its issue of Feb. 18, 1819. From an original copy of the newspaper, in possession of Mrs. Ruth Brown DeGroff, Leicester Town Historian, the following data is taken. Delegates from present Wyoming County Towns: ATTICA George Cooley, Paul Gardner, Robert Earll, Jr. BENNINGTON Darius Cross, Salmon King, George Loomis CHINA Silas Parker, Ellas Parker, D. H; Wooster COVINGTON Daniel White, Enos Newman, Moseley Stoddard GAINESVILLE Samuel King MIDDLEBURY Russell Abel, William Mitchell, Elijah Smith ORANGEVILLE Paul Richards, William Chase, Spalding Wheeler PERRY James Waterhouse, Elnathan Lacy, Warren Buckland SHELDON Joel Harris, Jacob Harwood, Jothan Godfrey WARSAW Warren Loomis, Daniel Knapp, Chauncey Sheldon The convention nominated for the New York State Assembly Fitch Chipman of Sheldon, Gideon T. Jenkins and Joseph Sibley, Esq. Warren Loomis, Warsaw, and William Mitchell, MIddlebury, were among those named to committees of correspondence.
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