Unknown delights his ears explore, To hear his hoarse companions roar, The little 'stiller took the pint Full fraught with flip and songs obscene, To sing a song of Josy Green. Soon as with stam'ring tongue, to read The club from clamr'ring strait recede, To hear him roar the thing alone. SONG. With vast amazement we survey The can, so broad, so deep, Where punch succeeds to strong sangree, Both to delightful flip. Drink of all smacks, inhabit here, And throng the dark abode; Here's rum, and sugar, and small beer, In a continual flood. From cruel thoughts and conscience free, From dram to dram we pass: Our cheeks, like apples, ruddy be; Our eyeballs look like glass. At once, like furies up we rise, Our raging passions swell; We hurl the bottle to the skies, But why, we cannot tell. Our brains a tott'ring motion feel, And quickly we become Sick, as with negro steaks,' and reel Like Indians drunk with rum. 1 This, says an original note appended to the poem, alluded to what passed at a convivial club to which Mr. Green belonged, where steaks cut from the rump of a dead negro were imposed on the company for beef, and when the imposition was discovered a violent expectoration ensued. Thus lost in deep tranquility, We sit, supine and sot, Till we two moons distinctly see,- Several persons not living in Kentucky, and subject to "snakes," have asked that the following (omitted from the almanack for 1771) be inserted here: A sure and certain Cure for the Bite of a RATTLE-SNAKE, made Public by ABEL PUFFER of Stoughton. As soon as may be after the Person is bit, cut a Gash or Split in the Place where the Bite is, as deep as the Teeth went in and fill it full of fine Salt; take common Plaintain1 and pound it, add a little Water to it, then squeeze out the Juice, and mix it with clear Water, then make a strong Brine with fine Salt and the Juice 'till it will not dissolve the Salt, then make a Swath or Bandage with Linen Cloth, and bind it round just above the swelling (but not too tight,) then wet the Bandage with the before mentioned Brine, and keep it constantly wet with the Brine, for it will dry very fast, & keep strokeing the Part with your Hands as hard as the Patient can bear, towards the Cut you made, and you will soon see the Poison and virulent Matter flow out of the Cut, and it will often flow so fast that it will swell below the Cut, and if it should, you must cut below the swelling to let out the virulent Matter, and it will not leave running 'till all is discharged; you must keep the Bandage moving downwards as the Swelling abates. It is proper to give the Patient something to defend the Stomack, as sweet Oil, Safron or Snake Root: It very often bleeds after the Poison is out, but be not surprized at that, it is Good for it; it will run some time after the Poison is out; there must be care taken that none of the Poison that runs out gets to any Sore or Raw Flesh, for it will Poison the Person. I expect that some will slight this Publication, for the Remedies being so simple a Thing, but I hope no one will so slight it, if he is bit, as to neglect trying the Experiment, and the Effect will prove what I have said to be true: I should not have published this, had I not been certain of its performing the Cure by my own Experience; for I have cured two Persons dangerously bit, and a Horse and Dog, with no other Thing But what is mentioned in the before Direction; and make this Publick for the Benefit of Mankind; tho' I have been offer'd a considerable Sum by some Persons to make it known to them, but then it must be kept as a Secret. Stoughton, Oct. 4, 1770. ABEL PUFFER. 1 If Plaintain cannot be got, strong Brine will do the Thing. A RECIPE to cure the WHOOPING-COUGH, which has been tried with success. Take dried Colt's Foot, a good Handful, cut them small, and boil them in a Pint of Spring Water, till half the water is boiled away, then take it off the Fire; when almost cold, strain it through a Cloth, squeezing the Herbs as dry as you can; throw the Herb away, and dissolve in the Liquor Half an ounce of brown Sugar Candy, finely powdered; when dissolv'd, add to them one spoonful & an Half of the Tincture of Liquorice-of which give a Child five Years old one Spoonful three or four Times a Day. Grown Persons may take four Spoonfuls at a Time, and as often. It will cure in two or three Days. |