Waveland Independent, May 31, 1951

"A poem was loaned to us by Harry Budd, whose grandfather, Col. C. Budd wrote:
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA
June 19, 1850

"There's going to be a factory built
(I advertise in rhymes)
And when you ask me what t'will be
I'll tell you Bill Canine

He's going to build on Clifty Creek
Right in among the pines
For O, it is a lovely sport
That place of Bill Canine's

There's must in the rippling stream
Old Rush's dirge it chimes
But soon t'will have to turn a mill
Through magic of Canine's

He's going to have a carding machine
To card your wool so fine
And if you want it done up right
Just call on Bill Canine

He will also have a spinning machine
To draw it to a nine
And if you want your wool spun well
Take it to Bill Canine.

He'll have a set of power looms
I guess they'll chatter fine
But if you want your weaving done
Why go to Bill Canine

He'll have a house all painted white
As tall as any pine
A towering up 'bove backbone ridge
I tell you it will shine

And when its all completely now
Don't you think it's so fine?
And who is there will step about
Like Mr. Bill Canine

It's time to stop my rhyme
For I think I hear the strange ask
Where's Mr. Bill Canine?

Then Billy starts to meet the man
He bows and scrapes so fine
I see, says he, "you've brought some wool,
I'm Bill Canine!"

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