The Charge of the Bean Brigade
Barlow, John Richard
Excerpt from The Charge of the Bean Brigade: A Description of the Grand Bean-Eating Journament for the Tonawanda News Gold Badge and Championship of New York, at Tonawanda, April 15, 1884, Under Auspies of Scott Post No, 129, G. A. R
Change of the Bean Brigade.
For years among the savants
It was a mooted theme
Whether as a fruit or berry,
Should be classed the goodly bean,
But while the question lingered
In controversial mist,
It was must...
