[PW] Re: Thanks RE: Re: Poem Quest

[Chris Corston]

I asked my sister to check in her copy of "What Cheer", and her rpeort was 
negative on the lines being sought - they don't appear in "Armand Dussault" 
as it show up in "What Cheer"
Her reply to me :


>>>Hi - sorry to report that the quoted lines do not appear in "Armand
Dussault", which is the title of as poem by Wilson MacDonald (who appears to
have been a scribe along the lines of Henry Drummond in the Wreck of the
Julie Plante (He also appears in What Cheer! "On wan dark night on Lac St
Pierre, De win' she blow blow blow..etc)

Anyway, Armand Dussault is all about an easy mark, who "ees too big an'
slow"  to avoid being picked on. Everybody does mean things to him. He has a
very pretty wife who talks compulsively, and finally a "handsome neighbour
man stole dat wife away And took her to the United State...". Armand lives
by the teachings of the priest, who has preached "love your enemy", and the
poem concludes "I love de man that stole my pipe, My love for heem ees
small. But dat good man who stole my wife, I love heem bes' of all."
g picked on.

Nary a word about the Baltimore NY ballgame in that or in the other (more
likely)  poem of MacDonald's, "Pierre of Timigami in New York" , in which he 
compares life in NY to life in the home town.<<<<



So the lines about the baseball game may be in another poem by Wilson 
MacDonald, but not in either of his that are in "What Cheer"

Chris Corston
Dartmouth Nova Scotia



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bye, Dan J" <D.J.Bye at shu.ac.uk>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: Thanks RE: Re: Poem Quest


>
> In which case, you might also like to know that according to Grangers 
> Index to Poetry (6th ed, 1973), the poem "Armand Dussault" also appears in 
> "What Cheer: an anthology of American and British Humorous and Witty 
> Verse", ed by David McCord.   Maybe someone has access to that and can 
> check to see if the cited lines appear.
>
> Dan
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org
>> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ellen Dark
>> Sent: 04 December 2006 19:23
>> To: list at project-wombat.org
>> Subject: [PW] Thanks RE: Re: Poem Quest
>>
>> So far, Dan's answer is the closest to what I think/hope the
>> patron is looking for.  I'll have to recommend the patron try
>> to get the collection through ILLO since our library does not
>> have the book.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who sent a response.
>>
>>
>> Ellen Dark, MLS
>> Reference Librarian
>> Lambton County Library
>> www.lclmg.org
>>
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