A newspaper poet; oh, dang him!
And pelt him, and club him, and bang him!
He kept writing away,
Till the people one day
Rose up and proceeded to hang him.
The Detroit Free Press.
SLANG, CANT, AND FLASH.
As Slang is a species of parody of our mother tongue, and as many songs are written in it, it must be alluded to in this Collection, however briefly.
A few examples will be quoted, followed by a bibliography, including mention also of Dictionaries devoted to Satirical and Political slang.