Jingles and Jangles of the Maine Legislative Jungle 7th Session

THE legislative joker is a curious
	little cuss
Though not bigger than a chipmunk,
	he kicks up with a heap of fuss.
He can hide within the innards of
	the most momentous measure,
And destroy and disembowel it com-
	pletely at his pleasure

In the legislative dealing from the
	bottom of the deck
The best of public measures often
	get it in the neck.
When you think you've go four
	aces, or a straight flush for a
	soaker,
You are liable to discover that one
	of 'em is the joker.

That most important measure -
	Portland's Iron Gird of
	Death -
Which Rounds swore to abolish tho
	it took his dying breath,
Was accomplished and demolished
	most completely and quite
	well,
Till the joker was discovered, then
	Rounds exclaimed: "O, hell,
I didn't see that joker Baxter dealt
	me from his deck;
Hereafter I'll be watchful, 'nd
	hornswaggle 'em by heck.
I'll take my bitter medicine, for I
	don't believe in croakers,
And if I return next session, I'll go
	gunning for these jokers."