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. RThat he could eat more beans himself Than ever Huggins dared.Then from the City of the Locks A warlike cry comes ringing, And Palmer claims that he, as yet, The fork and spoon is swinging. Then from Suspension Bridge a yell.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.