THE LITTLE BROWN BULL. 



The magnificent dining hall of the Blue Ridge Club, 

 wherein song and story have entertained some of the 

 most distinguished Americans, including Joseph 

 Cannon, of Illinois, Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia, 

 the members of the celebrated Gridiron Club and 

 others, has hanging on its walls pictures and speci- 

 mens from the waters, fields and woods, numbering 

 among them, a rich and attractive deer hide, in which 

 is penciled in superb large lettering, the following 

 lines, as musically and frequently rendered by the 

 owner, the late Col. Daniel Ransdell: 



Oh the little brown bull 



Came down from the mountains, 



Shang, rango, whango, whey, 

 And as he was feeling salutations, 

 Chased old Pratt a mile by gracious, 

 Licked old shep and two dog Towsers, 

 Then marched back home with Old 

 Pratt's Trousers, 



Whango, Whey. 



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