Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-03-08
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LUKE COLORADO PARK, 1873.

LUKE = COLORADO PARK, 1878.
Wot's that you're readin.?- novel? move
well. darn my skin!
You man grown and bearded, and n1Sten
su h staff Ell that in
Stuff about gals ami their sweethearts! no
wonder you re Thin as hnife.
Look at me!-ctar two bIndred-anq never
read one in my life.
That's my opinion O. novels And ez to their
lynn round here,
They belonged to the Jedge's daughter-the
go. ledge who cine up last year
On account Of his lungs AMI the nountans'
- and the balsamo pine ana mr.;
And his danghter-weil, she read novels, ana
that's what's the matter with her.
Yet she was sweet on the ledge, and stuck by
him day and night,
Alone in the cabin up yer-till she grew ike q,
~ ghost all white;
She was only Slip OF thing, ez ngnt ana ez
up and away
Ez rifle smoke blown through the woods, but
She WASH my kind-no way!
speakin' O. gals-dye mind that house ez you
A mile and a hall from Whites, and jist above
Matlingbys mill?
You do? Well, now, thar's gal! What, you
I. saw her? o. COM now thar quit
She was only bed win you boys, for to me she
don't cotton one bit.
But what was talkin Of? O! the Jedge and
his daughter-she read 49,
Novels the whole day long, and 1 reckon she
And sometimes she read them out loud to the
Jedge on the porch where ne SAT,
And twas how Is Lord Augustus said this, ana
iaF how "Lady Blanche she said that.
But the sickest of all that heerd, was a yarn
IS, that they read bout chap and hunter
chock full o the greeEest o sap;
And they asked me to hear; but says: miss
Mabel. not any for me;
When Ilikes kin sling my own lies, ana thet
.gss chap and Isbouldnt agree"
Yet somehow or other she always was sayin
brought her to mind
OF folks about whom she had read, or Suthin
belize of tibet kind:
And thar warn't no end O the names tibet she
gave me tibet summer up here,
''RObin Hood Misunderstanding, Rob Roy
%, l tell you, the critter was queer.
And yet eff she hadn' been spilled, she was
harmless enough in her way;
She could jabber in French to her dad, and
they said tibet she knew how TO play,
And she worked me that shot pouch up tnar-
which the man doesn't liv Ell kin use,
And slippers you see EN- down yer-cz would
cradle an lnjin's pappoose.
Yet along O. them novels, you see, she was
waStin and mOpin away,
And then she got shy with her tongue, and at
last had nothing to say: -
And whenever happened around, her face IT
And it warn't until she left that she gave me
eZ much eZ q look.
And this was the way it was: 1t was night
when ken up b re
To say to 'em all goOd-by, for reclxoned to go
5q. for deer .t,s,....t
At sun-up the day they left, SO shook em all
'Cept NJ bel, and she was sick, ez they gave
me to understand.
But just ez passed the house the next morn
fs ing at dawn some one,
Like little WAIVER O mist, got up on the hill
80. with the sun; i.
Miss Mabel il was. alone-sll wrapped up in a
And she stood there straight il the road, with
o. "a touch o the sun in her face.
And she looked at me right in the eye-Td
seen suthin' like it before .v- a
When hunted q wounded doe to the edge O.
~ N the Clear Lake shore, .Bas
And Thad my knee on its neck, and jist was
80 raisin' my knife - T'
a Wien it gave me a look like that-wen, it got
- Off with its life. aiu,..
'.wc ere going today she said, land ]
thought would say good-ty
To you in your own house, Iuke-these WOO Is
and the bright blue sky. -.
You've always. bee!s kind to us, Luke, and
papa has found you still 81
As good rs the air he breathes, and whOleS ONE
as laurel Tree HILL % '' i11
"And We'll always think of you, Luke, as the
thing we could not take away,
The baiSam that Gwels in the woods, the rain
- 80 bow that lives in the spray. f
And you'fl sometimes tn nix of me. Luke as
---r------ you know you once used to say. ~tfyr
As rite,smoke blown through the woods, q
- moment, but never to stay"
And then we shook hands. She turned but a
l,.i. student she tottered and fell, - go. E
} And I.caught her sharp by the waist, and held
r..g 80 her a minit-wenl
1t was only mint, you know, that ez cold and
ez white she lay 80 '- .-,,.;,.gss sl..JH
,Ez a Snowflake here on my breast, and then
W Es-s well, she melted away q So ,,yy.-