The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-18
THAT BOSTON MAN IN OREGON

Two brothers loved a lady fair:
Darkeyed was she and good to sec;
And OH her black, abundant hair!
And oh her wondrous witcheryl
Her father kept cattle farm:
These brothers kept her safe from harm:
From harm of cattle on the hill;
The thick-necked buiiOcks believing
Above the morning loud and shrill,
And lashing sides like anything,
And paving sane, to see the grand
Sun-burst along the valley land.
There was third young man who came,
Twas said, from distant Boston town.
He was not handsome. was not game,
But he could cook a goose as brown
As any man yet settled on
The ample shores CfOreg0n.
Good brothers." meekly said this man,
AS they, all jealous, ragged one day,
" have a higher. gentler plan:
pray you heed what shall say:
Take up your guns climb yonder hill;
While shall learn this malden's will.
"a Go hunt with hound and gun all day,
Then rest beneath the lorlly firs;
Forget your strife, forget the fray
About the lily hand of hers.
Yea, be good brothers. Sol Shake hands!
And now haste, climb Won lofty lands"
Two brothers sat the windy hill.
Their hair shone yellow like spun gold;
Their rifles crossed their laps, and still
They sat and sighed and shook with cold.
Their hearts lay bleeding far below:
Above them CLEANED white peaks of snow.
Z" If ] could die the elder sighed.
My dear young brother here might Wed"
90 Oh would to Heaven had diedr'
The younger sighed. W tn Bonded head.
Then each looked each full in the face.
And each sprang up and stood in place.
Their hounds Law crouchinr slim and neat
A spotted circle IN the grass.
The valley lay beneath til Fir feet:
They heard the wide-winged eagles pass
From peak to peak in clouds above:
Yet what could they but sigh and love?
% II could die"-the elder spake,
Die by your hand, the world would say
Twas accident; and Tor her sake,
Dear brother, be it 50, pray"
Not THAR the younger, signing, said;
Then tossed his gun and turned his head.
And fifty pace back he paced!
And as he paced he drew the ball;
Then sudden stopped and wheeled and faced
His brother to the death and fall
Two shots rang wild upon the air!
Two brothers still stood harmless there!
Two eagles poised high in the air;
Far, far below the believing
OF bullocks cea sed-; aud everywhere
Vast silence sat all questioning
Ten spotted hounds ran circlny round
And now each brother came 10 know
That each had drawn the deadly ball;
And for that fair girl far below
Had sought in vain to silent fall.
Then each the other loved so well
Each spake. clasped hands, and broke the
spell.
Now let us run right hastily
And tell the maiden truly air.
a. Yea, yea. And if she choose not me,
But all on you her favors fall,
This fearful scene till all life ends
Dear brother, binds us best of friends!"
The hounds sped down a spotted line;
The bulls in tall abundant grass
Shook back their horns from bloom end
vine,
And trumpeted to see them pass.
They sought her breathless, babe her choose
Which she would wed; and which refuse.
Twas then this Boston man did speak:
He2 father has thousand cows,
An hdndred bulls as fat and sleek;
He also has an ample house;
And so spoke to her," he said,
:" And hastily we two were we'd"
Joaquin Muller, in Terds Siftings.