Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2., chapter 213

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80. “lettuce alone.”

I was in an eating-house one day,
When I heard a customer loudly say--
“Bring me a salad,” and right away
The waiter ran the call to obey,
And placed before the man in a trice
A lobster salad looking very nice.
“No, no,” said the man with petulant groan,
“All I ask is lettuce alone.”
I looked at the man — he was gaunt and thin,
With hollow eyes and cadaverous skin.
Then I said to myself, as I rubbed my eyes,
This must be Jeff. Davis in disguise,
For no one else I've ever known,
Would ask, for a salad, lettuce alone.

--Boston Sat. Evening Gazette, June 29.

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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Frank Moore, Ed.