The Passenger Hog

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The Passenger Hog</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> (from: Songs Of The Great Lakes)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>She comes up the river, an' all in her wake</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There's trouble she don't care to heed,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The water's kicked up an' the hawsers all break,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Why can't she come down in her speed?</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She noses along like a grouchy old sow,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Then lets out her engines a cog,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' all 'long the river she raises a row,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The clumsy old passenger hog.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The </B></I><I><B>Northwest's </B></I><I><B>a lady, the </B></I><I><B>Northland's</B></I><I><B> the same,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' the others is mostly all right;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But the passenger hog is a portly old dame</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That ain't at all nice or polite.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She hasn't no likin' fer freighters or those</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That happens her pathway to clog;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' the freighters they hates her from rudder to nose,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The ugly old passenger hog.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The hogs that are loaded with iron or wheat</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They seem to be handy fer use</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But the passenger hog is a mean one to meet,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' when you're in dock she's the deuce.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>She'd ought to be given a port all her own,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Where no one would care how she'd jog,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Where she'd leave us poor freighters an' others alone,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The ugly old passenger hog.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> * a "hog" is lake parlance for a whaleback</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="popular_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Magazine"><U><I>The Popular Magazine </I></U></A><I>- April 1, 1911</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>