Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-20
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aud hear yarn from me
kin not sling . fairy tale OF Jinnys hefcs
Fer hohi it 10 unchrisiian TO deceive .
hut A. from school yer driftin' by thows
ye'd like to hear
OF q .!5pellin' Bee a, Angels that we or
gained last year.
Il vsrn't msde up of gentle lads-of pretty
kids--like you,
mt rents ~ had their reg lar growth, and
some snough for two:
rhsrc vn Lanky Jim Of S-llcrs Fork, and
Bilson Of Lagrange,
And "Pistof Bob" who wore that day q
Hnif- By way Of change.
You start, yoa littl' kids, you think these
arr not pretty names,
But each had q man behind il, ana-my
name Is Truthful James.
Thar WA Poker Dick from Whisky Flat,
and Smith Of Shooters Beud,
And Brown Of Calaveras-which want DO
better friend
Three. fingered Jack-yes, pretty deArs-
three fingers you have five;
Clapp cut of two-it's sing lar, too, that
Clapp amt now alive.
Twas very wrong indeed, my dears, and
Clapp was much TO blame;
Likewise was Jack, in after years, for shoot
in of that same.
The nights was kinder lengthenin' out, the
rains had Jest began,
When all the camp came mp to Pete's to
have their usual fun;
But we all ,ot kinder sad. like around the
baf-roem stove,
Till smith got up, pcrmiskiss like, and this
remark he hove:
There's a new game down IN Frisco, tibet.
~ far ~ ] ran see,
Beats euehre, poker aud vantoon, they
calls the 'Spelliu Bee
Then Brown If Calaveras simply hitched
his chair and spake:
"Pokcr's good enough for me- and lanky
Jim saz, "shake"
And Bob allowed he warn't proud, but he
"must say right thar
That the man who tackled euchIc had his
education squar."
This brought mp Lenny Fairchild, the
schoolmastrr, who safd
lie knew the game and he would give in
struction on that head.
For instance take some simple word, sez
he, like separate,
Vow who can spell it''' Dog my skin, ef
there was one in eight
This set the bows all wild at once. The
chairs was set in row,
And at the head was LAnky Jim, and at
the foot was Joe.
And high upon the bar itself the school
master WA raised,
And the bar-kscp pnt his glasses down and
sat and silent gnzed
The first word out was parallel" and
seven let IL be,
Till Joe waltzed in his double ~ bctwiNt
the "a and &C.;
For, since he drilled them Mcxieans in san
Jncintos fight,
Thar warn't no prouder man got mp than
Pistol Joe that night
TIL rhythm" came, lie tried 10 smile
then said, "they had HIM them"
And Lanky Jim, with one long stride, 20,
up and took his chair.
o little kids nv pretty kids, twas touch
ing To survey
These bearded men with weppings on, lik,
sohoolboy, at their play.
They'd laugh with giee, aud shout to see
each other lead the van,
And Bob sat up rs monitor with a cup fol
arpttan,
Till the chair gave ont bureaucratic" and
and Brown said he'd he burned
IT any snch blamed words a. that in schoo
was ever learned.
When "phthisis" came they all sprang up
aud vowed the man who ruug
Another blamed Greek word on them b,
taken ont aud hung.
AZ they sat down again / saw in Bison
eye flash,
And Brown Of Calavcras was a.twistin hi
mustache,
And when at last Brown slipped on "gneiss
and Bilson took his chair,
He dropped some casual words about som,
folks who dyed their hair.
And then the Chair grew very white, ant
the Chair said he'd adjourn,
But Poker Dick remarked that he would
wait aud get his turn
Then with n trcmbliu' voice aud hand. anC
with a wanderin' cyc,
The Chair next offered "ridcr-duck," an,
Dick began with IL,
And Bilsou smled-thcn BilSon shriekcd
just how the fight begun
never knowed, for Bilson dropped an,
Dick he moved mp one.
Then certain gents arose and said "thcy'
business down in camp"
And "eZ the road was rather dark, and e
the night was damp.
The'd'-- here got mp Three fingered Jacl
and locked the door and yelled:
"No, not one mother. son goes out till tha
thar word is spelled
But while the words were on his lips, h,
groancd and sank in pain.
And sank with Webster on his chest AM
Worcester on his brain.
Below the bar do,lged Poker Dick, and trie,
to look ez he
Was huntin' up authorities that no one els
could see;
lowiu' he was cold"
Till it upset aud down his legs the cinde-
freely rolled,
And several gents called Order" till il