Excerpt from Ye Book of Copperheads A soldier came back from the war, With many an honorable scar; But the Copperheads cried, Served you right if you'd died In this curst Abolitionist war I 2. The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, And out came a vile Copperhead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.