Merchant's gargling oil songster : Dream fate calendar / [Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.].
- Date:
- [1889]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Merchant's gargling oil songster : Dream fate calendar / [Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Whistling Coon. Oh I I’ve seen in my time some very funny folks; But the funniest of a.l I know, Is a colored individual as sure as you’re alive, As black as any black coon 1 You may talk until you’re tired, but you’ll never get a word Prom this very funny, queer old coon; He’s a knock-kneed, double-jointed, hunky-plunky moke, And he’s happy when he whistles this tune. [Whistling interlude.] Oh ! he’s got a pair of lips like a pound of liver, split; And a nose like an India-rubber shoe ; He’s a limpy, happy, chuckle-headed, huckleberry nig, And he whistles like a happy “killy-loo 1” He’s an independent, free and easy, fat and greasy ham. With a cranium like a big baboon I Oh ! I never heard him talk to anybody in my life, But he’s happy when he whistles this tune. Oh ! he’d whistle in the morning, thro’ the day and thro’ the night; And he’d whistle like the devil going to bed ; Oh! he’d whistle like a locomotive engine, in his sleep; And he whistled when his wife was dead. One day a fellow hit him with a brick upon the mouth, And his jaw swelled up like a balloon, Now he, shaking, goes along like a monkey in a fit. And this is how he whistles that tune. Published by permission of Wm. A. Pohd &■ Co., owners of the copy¬ right, from whom copies of this song can be obtained. Miss Myrtie Peck and B. H. Demarest, N. Y. City: This is to certify that we have used Merchant’s Gargling Oil for the last two seasons in our stable of running horses, 15 in number, and can cheerfully recom¬ mend it as the best liniment in use. To dream that you are drowning or seeing another drown, portends good to the dreamer ; to dream of elephants denotes riches and sagac¬ ity ; of losing your eyes indicates that you will violate your word, or else you or some of your children are in danger of death ; to dream that you see a smiling face is a sign of joy; of a meager pale face is a sign of trouble ; of a fall from a tree betokens you shall lose your office or position; that one sees his father-in-law, whether dead or alive, forebodes ill; of fields and pleasant places signifies to a man he will have a discreet and true wife, and to a woman a prudent and loving husband.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30478431_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
