|The abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! ```But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way ````To kill the vile Copperhead worms. [Illustration: 0023] ```_"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."--King Henry IV., V. 1._ |There was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to _recruit_, ```That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, ````While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. [Illustration: 0024] ```_"So much dishonor my fair stars."--King Richard 111., IV. 1._ |The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, ```Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, ````When he cuts out her head from the stars. [Illustration: 0025] _"And so the lion vanished."--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ |While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; ```Now with Copperhead _tale_ he stings himself pale. ````And furaciously scorns Abolition. [Illustration: 0026] ```_"Will this Wood take fire?"--Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5._ |Union, a fagot we take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, ```To use rotten old Wood which never was good, ````And then bind it up with a Snake. [Illustration: 0027] |There once was a Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, ```That he'd rather go down in the water and drown ````Than be saved by the help of a nigger. [Illustration: 0028] |There once were some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; ```But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, ````They mournfully mizzled from Reading. [Illustration: 0029] _"O wicked Wall!"--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ |There once was an old _party_-Wall, quite _cracked_ and just ready to fall; ```The Copperheads came and completed its shame ````By sticking their Bills on this Wall. [Illustration: 0030] |There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; ```But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, ````And were stunned by the _vim_ of the Porter! [Illustration: 0031] |There once was a Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" ```But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, ````And bore him in triumph away. [Illustration: 0032] ```_"Exit shall be strangling a snake."--Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1._ |The Copperhead traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call ```But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, ````Will settle the Copperheads all. Amen! GOTHAM-MITES. |I like such Brooks," said Falstaff once; ``Had he meant _ours_ he'd been a dunce; `The devil, whom all things evil please, ``Could never stand such Bruoks as these.= `In the Tyrol on mountain high ``"The Devil's Marble" you may spy; `And if in the World you long remain, ``You'll probably meet the same again.= `Och, Johnny, my gun--let the truth be aid, ``What the divil made _ye_ turn Copperhid? `Sure it was hivvy what ye bore,