| Show THE YANKEE TEA party BY MISS H n r f king Mili deor george i go sa sat t highbie high on his family thron throne i e the dhe he lord or of the liles isles that were fairly his bis own and might have su surfaced sufficed faced had his bis majesty known the f folly ony of coveting more bui bud bot dot a i tribute his pomp to main maln maintain tainy taint he ile reached oer eer the island to grasp at the maln main intending his coffers should chink with ahe the gain t that was brought from a distant shore and when he be had summoned in solemn array ills ministers round him to canvass a way w ay in which be he might make the americans pay the the cost of the royal court our liege said they ci theres sitheres many a ship that might be sent out on an indian trip ad and freighted with TEA for the new world to sip and do it for our support als donaj done said the king cotis a good bright thought for that will be Epo sponging nging so easily wrought that the ships shall with indian leaves be fraught and sent to our land well make columbia swallow our tea and pay her duty far over the sea fea oil ou every pound for our powers that be to put in her royal hand band xa and so in due season and true british state As the ships rowed up with their well packed freight to the shores of thew the estem western world this order imperial echoed around the teas must ba be bought and the buyer la Is bound to pay ns as a duty on oli every pound 7 while the canvas in port was wa furled but ko said the Friend friends sot of the city of penn fc george mcgeorge Is a mortal and quakers are men your tour leaves may float off over the ocean again I 1 F or soberly we B e protest we never will open a traitorous door to let such a cargo come into a store ston unopened withdraw from our shore the treasures of every chest and no was the word wordy at the placa place of the dutch A als grinding our faces a little too much broad as they be and your i our teas shall not touch our land while by us it is trod F for or the duty we owe to our god and the throne Is not to be crushed by a foot like our own and that of the britons Is so overgrown well have it more tightly shod but the spirited yankees knew just j ast the thing that would suit themselves if it didn dian t the king ling and when the proud sails came nying flying to bring their freight oer the glassy bay they met and agreed that atwould not be right ills maje offer of tea to slight r tor or they viewed the affair in a national light As they showed in a national way I 1 they met in a council and forming a band arrayed like the children that sprang from the land in blanket and fea sea feathery feather thery with hatchet in hand with their faces and limbs overlaid oer laid ald with a copper hued coating of paint they took their way to the ships while the tomahawk shook and the wild pow powwow wow made the royalist look aghas aghast t for tor the turn of his trade fc tC toome Come gme ome said the visitors chow now for tor our tea kwoll weil weli well take it on deck it if you please pleasey and see of gunpowder g green it hyson son bohea which flavor we like the besu best I 1 then box after box came up close packed and lid after lid was smitten and cracked As the red hand worked and the tomahawk hacked and entered each odorous chest this said the company othis this Is the way that we the yankees aire acre are going to pay our oar duty on tea and help to defray the cost of the royal cup we are going to leave every pound to steep with its imposts Impost sj in the boiling deep and the good strong brine where we guess twill twin keep till the parliament draws it up i then over the sides of the ship they poured the treasures of every box on board it hissed as it went till the dock was floored with the leaves of the indian tree mell meil well let they cried old cei cri england know known that bending too much the may break the bow for columbian Colum bias spirit cant carl t stoop so I 1 low ow fc AS thren THREE pence rence A POUND FOUND ON teal trap |
