52 THE FOGY DAYS AND NOW ; 



Babies now are chocked and crammed, 

 Are just loaded down with knowledge, 



Soon as their bibbs are taken off, 

 Are prepared to enter college. 



George Washington was a mighty man, 

 In days of which we've been speaking; 



Could he come back, a goose he'd be, 

 It would make him feel real sneaking. 



Then what about old man Franklin? 



The man who first cotch the lightning ; 

 Could he see half that's now been done, 



Why, he couldn't keep from frightning. 



And that old-time orator, Patrick Henry, 

 That liberty speech he seemed a cordon, 



But, goodness gracious, in this great day, 

 Whar'd he be 'ginst Grady and Gordon? 



John Wesley, he was a '* hustler " then, 

 Counted powerful in a scrimmage, 



But to set him down in these big times. 

 With sich as Sam Jones and Talmage. 



Old man Girrard was then thought rich, 

 And so was Mr. John Jacob Astor, 



But millionaires of the present day, 

 Have possessions greatly vaster. 



Merchants, lawyers, doctors all progress, 

 Mechanics is the greatest wonder, 



And farmeis who held the biggest cards, 

 Are the worst of all snowed under. 



We seem to live in a different world, 

 The old ball seems turned inside out. 



Things aint running as they use to was. 

 No, they aint agwine as they mout. 



