The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-04
BY JOAQUIN MILLER

tou WUuiu nave HousS ou hio'
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,
He gathered up great OK whip
And drove toward the setting sun.
He crossed the great backbone Of earth,
He saw the snowy mountains rolled
Like mighty pillows; saw the gold
OF awful sunsets; saw the birth
or sudden dawn upon the plain,
And every night would william Brown
Eat pork and beans. anil then lie down
And dream sweet dreams of gentle Jane.
Her lovers passed. Wolves hunt in packs.
They sought for bigger game; somehow
They seemed to zee above her brow
The forky signs of turkey tracks.
The teter-hoard Of life goes up,
The teter- board Of life goes down,
The sweetest face may learn to frown,
The biggest dog has been pup.
., maidens pluck not at the air;
The sweetest flowers have found
Grow 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 q new desire,
She sighed, she wept for William Brown,
She watched the splendid sun 20 down
Like some great sailing ship on tire.
Then rose and checked her trunk right on;
And In the cars she lunched and lunched,
And had her ticket punched aud punched,
Until she came to Oregon.
She reached the limit of the lines,
She wore blue specks upon her nose,
Wore rather short and manly clothes,
And 80 set out TO reach the mines.
Her right hand held Testament,
Her pocket held parasol,
And thus equipped right on she went,
Went waterproof and waterfall.
! She met miner gazing down,
Slow stirring something with aspoon;
40, tell me true and tell me soon,
| What has become of William Brownf'
He boo,sed askance beneath her specs,
Then stirred his cocktail round and round,
Then raised his head ami sighed profound,
| And sand, He's handed In his checks"
Then care fed on her damaged cheek,
And she grew faint did gallus Jane,
And smelt her smelling salts In vain.
She wandered on weary, worn and weak.
| At last upon hill alone
She came, and there she sat her down
For on ,ba. hill there stood a stone.
And In that stone read, william Brown
go. William Brown! o, William Brown.
And here YOU rest at last" she said.
"With this low stone above your head,
And forty miles from any town!
Twill plant cypress trees, will,
And will build a fence around,
And will fertilize the ground
With tears enough to turn mill"
She went and got a hired man,
She brought him forty miles from town,
And In the tall grass squatted down
/, And bid him build a. she should plan.
But savage cowboys with their bands
They saw and hurriedly they ran
And told bearded cattle man
Somebody builded on his lands.
He took his rife from the rack,
He girt himself In battle p"lt,
He stuck two pistols in his belt,
And, mounting on his horses hack,
He plunged ahead. But when they Showed
1 A woman fair, about his eyes
He pulled his hat, and he likewise
! Pulled nj his beard and chewed and chewed
d At last he gat him down and spake;
go. lady dear, what do you hear"
"I build tomb unto my dear,
I plant sweet flowers for his sake"
Tn. bearded man threw his two hands
"a Above his head, then brought them dov
And cried, "Oh, am William Brown,
And this Is the cornerstone of my lands :
Her specs fell off, her head fell back,
lust like some lifted teapot lid;
!, She screamed, this ancient maiden did,
And, fainting, split herself, IN facs
Right In the beard of William Brown,
Then all the Indians were amazed;
They thought the gentle maiden crazedr
Aud circling round they sqnatted down.
But William was gentle man;
!. He tade two Indians call the priest
He babe two more prepare feast,
Th n led her, blushing, by the hand,
Iik. some sweet maiden in sweet May
He was SO good, he was so trne'
II. did not know what else TO do, d.. d.
M, led her round and round all day. ..
- At last the priest. on spotted mare
Who galloped forty miles or more'
a He found them In :he grasses sore
And married them right then and there"
Then NIL the cowboys they came down
And feasted ~ the night advanced,
Aud all the diggers drank and danced,
And cried, "Big lnjin, William Brown
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