Jennie's Calendar, 1917

- Blue Monday - Chapter II. Shamrock vs. Sauerkraut. Shure the Kaiser's cows are grazing But ye'd better call them in, For they'll be no Dutch to milk them If the war kapes up 'till Spring. Shure this is phwat will happen If you don't let up ye know, 'Twill be Pat's cow that'll ate the grass Where the Sauerkraut used to grow. Begorra don't count your chickens 'Till their [sic] all hatched out ye know You'd better kape the Sauerkraut And lave the Shamrock grow. Or the Russian Jews will wear your shoes And ye'll have no men to go To take the grass from Pat's cows Where the Shamrock used to grow. Sprecken [sic] Sie Irish?

Mabel Dennison