The Hybrids, An Epi-comic Satire

BY AN M. D.
Mollusks, Saurians, Pachyderms.
A cordial concocted in love and sincerity
Of sarcasm and sense, with grains of severity,
For healing whatever the purchaser pleases,
But specially suited to female diseases.
MILWAUKEE, 1871.
Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
F. H. HARWOOD,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
HAIL blest stupidity! impervious shield Of dullness hail! No thorn in all the field Of reason, wit, or satire, hath been found, Could reach thy soul in toughest bull-hide bound!
Refreshingly unconscious thou dost graze Amid the brambles of sublunar ways, In rare beatitude of placid soul, Thy skin unbroken sound and whole;