YANKS BY JAMES W. FOLEY O'LEARY, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin' man, Born in County Clare or Kerry, where the gentle art began; Sergeant Dennis P. O'Leary, from somewhere on Archie road; Dodgin' shells and smellin' powder while the battle ebbed and flowed. And the captain says: "O'Leary, from your fightin' company 5 Pick a dozen fightin' Yankees and come skirmishin' with 10 me; Pick a dozen fightin' devils, and I know it's you who can." And O'Leary, he saluted like a first-class fightin' man. O'Leary's eye was piercin' and O'Leary's voice was clear: "Dimitri Georgenopulos!" and Dimitri answered “Here!” Then "Vladimir Slaminsky! Step three paces to the front, For we're wantin' you to join us in a little Heinie hunt!" "Garibaldi Ravioli!" Garibaldi was to share; And "Ole Axel Kettleson !" and "Thomas Scalp-the-Bear!" Who was Choctaw by inheritance, bred in the blood and bones, But set down in army records by the name of Thomas Jones. 15 20 ΙΟ "Van Winkle Schuyler Stuyvesant!" Van Winkle was a bud From the ancient tree of Stuyvesant and had it in his blood; 5 "Don Miguel de Colombo!" Don Miguel's next kin Were across the Rio Grande when Don Miguel went in. 66 Ulysses Grant O'Sheridan!" Ulysses' sire, you see, Had been at Appomattox near the famous apple tree; And "Patrick Michael Casey!" Patrick Michael, you can tell, Was a fightin' man by nature with three fightin' names as well. "Joe Wheeler Lee!" And Joseph had a pair of fightin' eyes; Is And his granddad was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise; Then "Robert Bruce MacPherson!" And the Yankee squad was done With "Isaac Abie Cohen!" once a light-weight champion. 20 Then O'Leary paced 'em forward and, says he, "You Yanks, fall in!" 25 And he marched 'em to the captain; "Let the skirmishin' begin," Says he, "the Yanks are comin', and you beat 'em if you can!" And saluted like a soldier and a first-class fightin' man! 1. This is a ballad of the Great War. It is intended to show that all nationalities are American, and all helped make up our army. How many nationalities are represented? List them. (Used by permission of James W. Foley and The Saturday Evening Post.) S. H. R. SIXTH- -7 IN SCHOOL DAYS BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER STILL TILL sits the schoolhouse by the road, Around it still the sumacs grow, And blackberry vines are creeping. Within, the master's desk is seen, The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door's worn sill, betraying Long years ago a winter sun It touched the tangled golden curls, For near her stood the little boy ΤΟ 15 20 His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered; The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes; he felt "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: Because," - the brown eyes lower fell, Still memory to a gray-haired man He lives to learn, in life's hard school, Like her - because they love him. I. What is the story related? How long before the poem was written had the events happened? Prove your answer. 2. Read aloud the stanzas that describe the schoolhouse. Sketch the boy and the girl. |