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O!Peary, We re W eary!
(BY JAMES BARTON ADAMS.)
O Peary ! O Peary ! you're making us weary
With howlings of "gold brick" and "fake,"
Your soul is in trouble through fear Cook may gobble
A slice of the polaric cake.
Pray keep your fur shirt on and cease piling dirt on
The name of a rival till he
His record produces to meet your abuses-
Don't bark, like a dog, up a tree.
The day may be nearing when all of your sneering
May do a sore boomering stunt;
Fly backward with vigor and sadly disfigure
Your lordly and arrogant front.
Your wireless abuses may yet serve as nooses
To circle your noise spouting throat:
When Cook tells his story the proofs of his glory
May get your discovery goat.
We doubt not you found it, danced gleefully 'round it,
And stuck the flagstaff in the snow,
But proofs may be thrown us-convincingly shown us-
That Cook saw it first, don't ye know.
Your hammer cease swinging, let up on mud slinging,
And let the world judge 'twixt the two,
And if your aspersions prove truthful assertions
We'll throw all our bouquets to you.
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