The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-02-26
MISCELLANY
WILLIAM BRO WV, OF OREGON.

Aey called him Bill, the hired man,
Aud she. they called her Mary Jane,
And lovers often drew rein
To chat and sigh as lovers can
Across the gate in snatch and catch.
And women winked across their tea.
Aud said. and truly 90 thought he,
That she would make splendid match.
This hired man had loved her long.
Had loved her best and first and last,
Her very garments as she passed
For him had symphony and song.
- when one day, with brow 10 frown
She called him Bill, he raised his head,
He caught her eye, then faltering said:
81 love you, and my name ID Brown
She fairly waltzed with rage she wept;
lou would have thought the house on fire;
She told her sire the portly squire,
Then smell her smelling salts and slept.
Poor William did what could be done
He swung pistol on each hip,
lie gathered up great GA whip
And drove toward the setting sun.
He crossed the great backbone OF ca,th,
lie saw the snowy mountains rolic'l
Like mighty pillows, saw the gold
OF awful sunsets. saw the birth
OF sudden dawn upon The PLAIN.
And every eve would William Brown
Eat pork and beans, and then lie down
And dream sweet dreams Of Mary Jane.
The teter board Of life goes up,
The teter board Of life goes down,
The sweetest face must learn 10 frown;
The biggest dog has been a pup.
Her lovers passed. Wolves hunt in packs.
They sought for bigger game: somehow
They seemed 10 see about her brow
The forky sign of turkey tracks.
q maidens. pluck not at the air.
The sweetest flowers have found
tsr0w rather close unto the ground,
And highest places are most bare.
Why you had better win the grace
of one poor cussed African
Than win the eyes of every man
In love alone with his own face.
AT last she nursed new de.ire;
She sighed, she wept for William Brown,
She watched the splendid sun go down
Like some great sailing ship A. fire;
Then rose and checked her trunks right on.
And in the ears she lunched and lunched.
And had her ticket punched and punched,
Until she came % ORE"
She wore blue specs upon her nose,
she reached the limits OF the lines,
And then set out To reach the mines,
In rather short and manly clothes,
Her right hand held parasol,
Her pocket held Testament.
And thus equipped right on she went,
Went waterproof and waterfall.
ne asked a miner gazing down,
slow stirring something with a spoon,
To tell her true and tell her soon
What had become OF William Brown.
lie looked askance beneath her specs,
Then stirred his cock tail round and round,
Then raised his head and sighed profound
And said, Hes handed in his checks"
Then care fell on her damaged check,
And she grew faint did Mary Jane. !
And smelt her smelling salts in vain,
Yet wandered on wayworn and weak
Until at last she sat her down
I pom sloping hill alone,
And there. good gracious, stood stone,
And To- that stone read William Brown.
so William Brown, Owilliam Browni
And here you rest nc last" she said,
With this lone stone above your head,
And forty miles from any town,
Will plant cypress trees, viii,
And will build fence around,
And will fertilize the ground
sSiih tears enough to turn a mill"
she went and got a hired man
she brought him forty miles from town,
Then In the tai! grass she sat down,
And babe him build ms she should plan;
But digger herlers with their bands
They saw and hurriedly they ran
And told a bearded cattle man
That some one builded on his lands.
He took "A rifle from the rack,
lie girt him in his battle pelt.
lie thrust two pistols in his belt,
Then mounted on his chargers back,
And plunged ahead. But when they showed
\ woman there, about his eyes
HE pulled his hat. and he likewise
Pulled AT his beard, and chewed and chewed.
4. last he got him down and spake
''Oh lady dear, what do you here"
II build a tomb unto my dear
plant some flowers for his sake"
The bearded man threw his two hands
Above his head. then brought them down,
And cried, "Oh. I am William brown,
And this the corner Of my land"
Her specs fell on her head fell back.
some like lifted teapot lii;
She screamed-that ancient maiden did
Then, fainting, split herself. alackl
Right In the beard Of William Brown.
Then all the diggers were amazed,
They thought the lonely maiden crazed,
And, cirrling there, they squatted down.
The preacher rode spotted mare,
lie galloped forty miles or more,
tie swore he never had before
seen bride or bridegroom half so fair;
And all the miner-, they came down
And Toasted a. the hight advanced.
And all the diggers drank and danced,
And cried, big min, William Brown"
joaquin Miller