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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Horse and Cart Ferry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was old Jerry Brown,<br>Who’d an office in town,<br>And he used to get jocular, very;<br>And he’d go to the Shore<br>When they’d serve him no more,<br>And, of course, by the passenger ferry,<br>A sight on the passenger ferry. <br>Now this is a song of the ferry,<br>And a lay of the juice of the berry;<br>’Tis the ballad of Brown,<br>Who’d a business in town,<br>And commenced to go down<br>Very slow,<br>Don’t you know?<br>By coming home just a bit merry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the Drunks’ Boat—that’s right—<br>On a Saturday night<br>He would often be past being merry;<br>With his back teeth afloat,<br>On the twelve o’clock boat,<br>And a spectacle there on the ferry<br>(A picture to all on the ferry). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the mornings, ashamed—<br>’Twas the last drink he blamed,<br>Though the first was the matter with Jerry,<br>With his nerve out of joint,<br>He’d sneak down to Blue’s Point,<br>And he’d cross by the horse-and-cart ferry,<br>Like a thief—by the horse-and-cart ferry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But long before night<br>He’d most likely be tight,<br>And a subject and theme for George Perry;<br>And he’d cross to the Shore,<br>Somewhat worse than before,<br>And a nuisance to all on the ferry;<br>Singing-drunk on the passenger ferry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so it went on<br>Till his reason seemed gone,<br>And the Law, so it seemed, got a derry<br>On Brown. He went down,<br>And they sent him to town<br>One day, by “the trap,” on the ferry—<br>The Government trap on the ferry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was sober and sane<br>When he came back again,<br>And the past he’d determined to bury—<br>Or, I mean, live it down—<br>And he crossed from the town<br>Like a man, on the passenger ferry.<br>(There were sceptical souls on that ferry.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say ’twas the jaw<br>Of his mother-in-law<br>Drove him back to the juice of the berry;<br>But he soon got afloat<br>On the passenger boat<br>Or adrift on the horse-and-cart ferry<br>(Wrongly called the ve-hic-ular ferry). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The drink had him fast,<br>And he drank till at last<br>He dried up—a withered old cherry;<br>And they thought him no loss<br>When they sent him across<br>In a box, on the cart-and-horse ferry—<br>In a low, covered trap on the ferry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which I rise to explain—<br>If the moral ain’t plain,<br>And if you’re a cove that gets merry—<br>Always stick, when “afloat,”<br>To the passenger boat;<br>Or else to the cart-and-horse ferry,<br>Or you’ll make matters worse, like old Jerry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this is the song of the ferry,<br>And the lay of the juice of the berry;<br>And you will not deny—<br>If you read by-and-bye—<br>That the casual eye<br>Of the Tight<br>At first sight<br>Misses much in the song of the ferry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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Who’d an office in town,
And he used to get jocular, very;
And he’d go to the Shore
When they’d serve him no more,
And, of course, by the passenger ferry,
A sight on the passenger ferry. 
Now this is a song of the fer..."></div>
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