Bean Pot (1820)

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Atkinson's Casket (1831-1839), Philadelphia; Apr 1832, Iss. 0
  1.  A DAY OF DISTRESS.; pg. 178, 2 pgs

Ladies Port Folio (1820-1820), Boston; Feb 19, 1820; Vol. 1, Iss. 8
  2.  Back Cover; Anonymous; pg. 64, 1 pgs
  3.  Poetry; F --; pg. 64, 1 pgs

Pg. 64, col. 3:

      FOR THE LADIES' PORT FOLIO.
            ---
      A TRUE STORY.
It chanc'd one day, as people say,
   I think, in Charlestown* square,
A stage did wait to take some freight;
   Which often happens there.

A man did strive between to drive
   The stageman and the road;
But stage coach stood, like pile of wood,
   Still waiting for its load.

Now "_Beverly_,"** the man could see,
   All painted on the stage--
"You lazy sot, move that _bean-pot_,"
   He bellows, in a rage.

Stageman, in turn, replies with scorn,
   "Teamster, I'd let you work
Your forward way, but I must stay,
   Till I take in the _pork_.
         ESSEX.
*  A town famous for the best of pork.
** A town famous for raising beans.