Old Spookses’ Pass (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
I. WE'D camped that night on Yaller Bull Flat,— Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me. Right smart at throwin' a lariat Was ...
Thrash away, you'll _hev_ to rattle On them kittle-drums o' yourn,--'Taint a knowin' kind o' cattle Thet is ketched with mouldy corn;Put ...
'I wash me 'ands uv 'im,' I tells 'em straight.'You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave this ...
BREEZES blowin' middlin' brisk,Snow-flakes thro' the air a-whisk,Fallin' kind o' soft an' light,Not enough to make things white,But jest sorter ...
"Save your hoss for the hills ahead," is the cowboy's placid song.While his clear eyes follow the twinkling train as ...
Once in the Museum We seen a little roseIn a jar of alcohol — You turns up your nose:"That's the way people ...
Its bin ni ontoe three yearsSince mah Goo' Man, Sandy,Marched erway, twixt sighs an' tears,Frum his own Mirandy.Out yondah on ...
Ar! Gimme fights wiv foeman I kin see, To upper-cut an' wallop on the jor.Life in a burrer ain't no ...
An'—wilt—yeh—take—this—woman—fer—to—be Yer—wedded—wife?— . . . O, strike me! Will I wot?Take 'er? Doreen? 'E stan's there arstin' me! As if ...
I nearly fell fair in my tracks.I'm trudgin' homeward with my axe When I come on her suddenly. "I wonder ...
At any other time of yearIt might have passed, but Spring is queer. He says somethin' - I dunno - ...
Well, I've done my bit o' scrappin',And I've done in quite a lot;Nicked 'em neatly wiv my bayonet,So I needn't ...
I wash me 'ands uv 'im, I tells 'em straight. "You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave ...
There's a town I know in Flanders, an' there ain't much else to say,But it's pretty much like most towns ...
You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line, Of our thin red kharki 'eroes, ...
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...
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