Show N M 7 M M PA O 1 MM w FM t f X N. KITTS ITTS ON OX FORESIGHT I t i sage of Station Took Tool his heels from the stove without precipitation Dug out of his pocket his nicotine ration Returned his two feet to their old ol elevation elevation- And Arid spoke on Committees of Investigation I see by the papers the Senate has riz why certain things is Con COI ernin the modes of th the war And also our ways of Which h same minds me some of an investigation Our Alderman had here in Station back In the year of the fire That some of our Alderman starts to aspire And public opinion turns in the direction Of gettin a engine for our own protection Which same some opposes exclaim In plumb mad We Ve wont won't have no fire here like had Si Sprague in the Council it but lost When Hickett Hackett and Wiggs out the great cost And furthermore Alderman Higgins essayed If fire come wed come wed we'd soon start a bucket brigade And so it went over a year till one night I We Ve woke with half 1 Station alight The whole population they turns out and Jumps To rustle up buckets and tin pans and pumps While evry evlY ten minutes in which they delays The cost of a engine goes up In the blaze By mornin with some of it still Somebody harks back to that old engine feud They sets down their palls pails in the light of the flame And Si Sprague he starts in a- a a fixin the blame And Hickett Hackett and Wiggs hangs their pails palls on the fence And lows his reflections they deeply resents And the Aldermen all sets their pails pans on the ground And starts in arguin round and around Some lows it was thus and some lows It was so And others emphatic comes in with Oh no Till Philomel Love with a tail coat Scoots by and yells Cut it and rustle your YOlU pail pall While foresight might once have prevented this night night night- You cant can't spend much time now hindsight tJ The The Spectator |