The Placer herald., 1873-05-03
how he'd sent a bakers dozen


He hearn a Minnie hum
Looked round and thar war Van all heeled--
Who after him had cum.
"Not fancying much that Minnie's tone,
Sam put off on run,
Like he would rather save his own
Than raise the ha'r O. Van.
..And so ther rid-wal, spect,
Nigh on three mild race
Exchanging shots without effect,
When Van gave up the chase
"Leastwise lay off, for about midnight,
When Sam came back to Lutes,
He let him ont in a squar fight
Jes standing in his boots.
"Next day the jury found deceased,
His name was Samuel Brown,
And farther that they all believed
He had been taken down
"By one Van Sickle, and somewhar
About Lutte Olds, last night,
And ON their solemn oaths did swar
He sarved the id cuss right!'
''Bully for Van! He's Hard to beat
And for the jury, too
Though most a shame that way to cheat
The gallows of its due.
"Whar's Sailor Jack, that used to cruise
With Alabam and Yank,
Them chaps that blked the boarding house
And burst the Faro bank?'
'Jack left the country on a ship,
And t'others l don't know as
They ever got back from a trip
They tuck to Barbacoas" "
Hear anything of Teddy Karn,
Or Bruiser Bob Magoon?'
"Both down thar at the Bay hearn,
Keepinp n sBit Saloon 80
"And him that wore the big moostache?"
'You mean that rich French Count
He's down thar too--a singing hash
At the Miners Restaurant
"Y-a-s, 'Friscos lousy with them kind,
And buns of all condition
Some Gaping for the Demi Monde,
Some playing politician.
"But tell me. Jim, about the sights,
And what you've done and seen;
Reckon you had some 'Pache fights
Down yonder whar you We been?'
"Y-a-s, got us in a rocky pass
And thar, corralled one day.
They had n dead sure thing on us
Couldn't fight nor get away
"And fore our party could back out,
They shot poor Fred McKean
The arrers flying thick about,
And not varmnt seen.
"And when I found that Fred would die,
l felt almighty bad
And jist laughed out--I couldn't cry
was 50 laundering mad
"And then said, now look here boys,
Eff you would save your lives,
You jist put up them shooting toys,
And sail in with your knives.
"And raising quick the 'Pache whoop,
/ started on ahead"
"And did tothers back you up?"
Eyes, Dan, you bet they did!
"And when the cusses seed us come,
| Tney raised scourging YELL
| To which our boys sung out each one,
Wade in and give em-fits!'
And of our band l b'leeve the whole
| Was wounded more or less
But we made good Indians of 'em all,
| And they'll stay good--I guess.
"Poor Fred, when came back to him,
Though trying hard to speak,
| Could only say: Tell mother, Jim,'
He was SO powerful weak.
"And next day we made his grave
| Upon little knoll
Under the shade of mesquit grove,
On the road to Cri5t0val
1--WE had after that another fight,
With them var pesky fellows,
Down at Arroyo Saucilite,
Among the little willows.
"But thar they didn't get us foul
We'd larnt their sneakin ways
And you can swar we made 'em howl
And git between two days.
Gas for their names, why, Dan, sich frights
You never came acrost-
'Espiritu Santo, which the whites
They call the holy Ghost.
"Las Mariquitas, Juan de Dios'-
These names they seemed so funny,
We christened one the 'Runty Marias,'
And t'other 'Pious Johnny
sWe altered heaps o. Grerser names
Los Ojos de Inez,
Sierra Blanca, 'Sebastians,
Eel Cobra and La Paz.'
$50, too we changed, 'mongst other things,
San Pedro to 'St. Pat;
The Eyes of Inez to Mud Springs
Ia Paz' to Quaker Flat
=" sEl Paiaro' we called The Bird
La Reina,' 'Gipsey Queen
Salinas and 'El Rio Verde,
salt River and The Green
=" San Nicholas we dubbed old Nic,'
sMorino' Dirty Dun,
Arroyo Muerto, Murder Creek,
.Puerco, 'Ground-Hog Rum
| 'sWe cut our names on every cross,
And burnt some to the ground,
To let the natives know their boss,
The white man, had been round.
ssWarm thar! Why, Dan, twas jes' that hot
That beans were cooked well done,
And we always billed the coffee-pot
1t standing in the sun.
..Soldiers who died they nearly froze-
Least that's the story they tell
And sent right back for their undercl0thes
The moment they got to-well,