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Newell: The American Traveller
By easy stages then he went
To visit Devil's Den;
And Scramble Hollow, by the way,
Did come within his ken.
Then via Nine Holes and Goose Green
He travelled through the State;
And to Virginia, finally,
Was guided by his fate.
Within the Old Dominion's bounds
He wandered up and down;
Today, at Buzzard Roost ensconced,
Tomorrow at Hell Town.
At Pole Cat, too, he spent a week,
Till friends from Bull Ring came,
And made him spend a day with them
In hunting forest-game.
Then, with his carpet bag in hand,
To Dog Town next he went,
Though stopping at Free Negro Town,
Where half a day he spent.
From thence, to Negationburg
His route of travel lay;
Which having gained, he left the State
And took a southward way.
North Carolina's friendly soil
He trod at fall of night,
And, on a bed of softest down,
He slept at Hell's Delight.
Morn found him on the road again,
To Lousy Level bound;
At Bull's Tail, and Lick Lizard, too,
Good provender he found.
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