YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS By Anonymous [Illustration: 0007] [Illustration: 0009] YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS "_ Continue this united League."--Richard the Third, III. 1_. `|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake; ```But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot ````Soon crushed this pestiferous snake. [Illustration: 0010] |A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar; ```But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died ````In this curst _Abolitionist_ war!" [Illustration: 0011] |The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; ``Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, ```And out came a vile Copperhead. [Illustration: 0012] |There was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; ```But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, ````This giant aroused from his sleep. [Illustration: 0013] |There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a ```So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth ````On that rusty and crusty Old File. [Illustration: 0014] "_Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."--Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2._ |There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; ``"But if war _must_ come, let us fight here _at home!!_" ```Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. [Illustration: 0015] _"One of those who worship dirty gods."--Cymbeline, III. 8._ |There once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; ```But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, ````And the world as a _Tory_ is branding him. [Illustration: 0016] |With War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; ```Let him get in the way of the mower some day, ````And He'll find there's no quibbling with war. [Illustration: 0017] |The Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie; ``For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, ````Unless an accomplice he be. [Illustration: 0018] |There once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; ```Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small ````Seemed _straight_ by the side of this Reed. [Illustration: 0019] |There's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; ```But the best he has made since at _bubbling_ he played, ````From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. [Illustration: 0020] ````_"And what Stock he springs of!!"--Coriolan, II. 3._ |Copper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; ```But we still might improve this stock of his love, ````By adding the _right_ sort of tie. [Illustration: 0021] |There was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; ```"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," ````This mordacious old War Horse cholerical. [Illustration: 0022] ```_" There is no goodness in the worm,"--Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2._