Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-03
Aancaster .9ntelltge,1cer.
WESTERN NAMES AND PHRASES.

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The writer has within the last ten year
mined in nearly every camp in the United
States from Pennsylvania to California. thenc'
to Oregon, Washington Territory and British
Columbia, on the Frazer and in Caraboo, ant
being something of a rowing cabinet and OBJ
server he has picked up and stored away
from time to time, Iames and phrases which
lie now proposes TO work into a sort OF ma
chine poetly y, taking all the poetical License al
lowable in this advanced age OF frontier poets
and dizzy rhymesters.
FOLLOW THE TRAIL, IT'S RED HOT.
From Helrs Delight to Smuggler's Bar,
Across Blue Gap to Hangry Bear,
From Roaring Camp We take the car
To Methodist and Never Swear.
Tip Top, Black Jack. The VOLTS Retreat,
Near Roaring Fork, where Lone Jack stru ck
IT,
And thence TO Han CLOWN, Wake up Pete.
And Let Her Zip, to Nip and Tuckit.
Now, Go Ahead, Take In, Freewill,
Long Pull, it's true. from Nothing Doing,
Don't Flicker Out ut Bottle Hill.
For Whisky Ranch is cross Blue Ruin.
Then strike the trail of Tim Buck Too.
Go Up the Flume to Hill o. Quaker
Through Hot Divide and Wandering Jew
To DEVILS Ride, near Helrs Half Acre.
SIumgullionvillc, Lookout, Mud Springs,
An Lousy Ridge, are near Coon's Hollow.
Cross bloody Run and SIN ,sh-C Bridge,
Dead Beat, Dead Broke and Bottom Dollar.
Drive slow across the Angels Swamp,
Let Slippery Jack. Hard Up tor game,
Turn loose when near the Gipsy's Camp.
And Murdlcrcr's Barr, near Saltcd Claim.
Leave Red Dog, Gouge Eye Out o. Sight,
Lost Cabins, where you'll hear the story
How Porker Pete. from IIell's Delight,
Broke Six -TOed Bill, of Ground Hog glory.
How Tom the Top, from Bitter Pill,
Addressed Pug Jake as Mistah Spcakah,
They Doused his glim ut Dismal Hill,
And Slugvillc people cried Eureka!
Then Monte Joe, from Lady's Veil,
Crossed Niger Gulch by Grcenhorn Cutoil,
Through Badger Hole, Ger Bull Dog Trail.
Near jackson, at the mouth of Shutoif,
We Fly Away, past He'll Town Claim.
Stop Short, Last Chance. now hats the
Matter:
Why. Muggins Tom. while dying game,
Turned Loose Cold Lead at every ciatter.
Now Skin Her Out toward Last Jump,
Cinch Up while passing Isanchcrcc,
Or Two To One you'll Turn Up Stump
At Robbers HOOst or Climb 4 Tree.
Tarantula's Nest is just Hard BY,
While Long Ncckcd Dick and old Bill Nyc
Used BOomcrangs, without Iiariscrabble
Still further on we Wake up Jake
To set EN- Up at Dead Coyote,
Wen have Free Lunch on Eattlcsnakc
And good Isawhide from Minnesota. ti'al)
Down Mocclsin to Dismal Heights,
To Hornets Nest and Horned Toad Level.
Where Skin Flint Sam preached WOman's
Rights,
And always played to beat the Devil.
But let us from old Shasta's heights.
LOOK down, recall some names now dying,
From Gas Point to Three Red Lights.
Near Filters Hill, while underlying
Is Fly Blow, iyIu, Takcthe Socks,
To Soap Springs, where, on Mad Mule, Go,
At IIorsetOwn, Dog Creek, and Mad OK,
Where lives Mike Finch, the boss of sligo.
In Trinity you'll find Blue Bells.
Big Flat can boast of Golden City,
Near Newton's Fork, where Buckshot tells
How SIap-Jack Jake plugged Little srhm''ty
The Forty. Miners went it blind,
And planted names in curious order,
And that is why you'll Never Find
Much classic jargon on the border.
So Let 'Er Pa:s-wcll shoot Wild Cal
With Moonshine, near to Miners GLORY,
And drink Old Port at Poker Fiat,
Near Shady Grove and Root Hog canyon,
Where Kansas kit oft told the story
OF PhantOm's Slide, The Scouts Retreat.
Where Grizzly Jake Oft basgcd his meat
With Scar-Faccd Tom, his 81 Boone" COM
panOn.
But h. re l must " collapse subai'lo.''
Wall. up TO Ran a-dOd-lar bar,
The reason Dry Up City died
BECAUSE the Red Rock was too far
So Ill dry ur-and well you may.
Thank you, my friend, but Mary's la'..b-
On shoot the lamL All right, Fair Play,
And you may so tO-iuba Dam.
Laramie EOOn,efaag.