"He finally went to sleep in the gutter, after undressin' hisself and hangin' all his close on a lamp-post.
"HAM, a son of Captin NOAH'S, diskiverin' his confused parient in a soot rather more comfortable than modest, was so mortified at his Dad's nakedness, that the mortificashun become sot, and when NOAH awoke from his soberin' off sleep, his son was blacker than the ace of spades.
"NOAH didn't like niggers.
"Not much he didn't.
"He hated 'em wusser nor a Pea cracker hates a Fenian.
"Seein' that his cheild had changed his political sentiments, he Horris Greelyzed him in the follerin' well-known words:
"Cussed be Kanan.'
"HAM wasent to be fooled in that stile by the Govenor, so he got BUTLER, whose surname was BENJAMIN, into whose sack was found a silver cup, and I believe a few spoons, SICKLES, LOGAN, LONGSTREET, and a lot of other chaps, to change their complexion. With the assistants of these men, NOAH and his party was floored, and the 15th Amendment waxed mitey and strong, espeshally with the mercury at one hundred degrees in the shade.
"Fokes was gettin' wicked and wickeder all the time.
"Members of Congress was drawin' the wool over the Goddess of Liberty's eyes, and rammin' their hands way down into her purse. Cadetships were bein' sold to the highest bidder.