The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-12
PENN -YAN BILL.
81 EUGEN : FIELD.


In galius old Kentucky where the grass is very
blue,
Where the liquor is the s1noothest and the girls
are fair and true,
Where the crop of be-gawd gentleman is full of
And the stock of four-time winners is the finest
in the land.
Where the Democratic party in bourbon hardi-
For more than half a century unterrihed has
stood.
Where nod the black-eyed susans to tie prattle
There-there befell the wooing of Penn fan
Bill
Down yonder in the cottage that is nesting in
the shade
OF the walnut trees that seem TO love that quiet
little glade
Abides pretty maiden of the bonny name of
Sue
As pretty as the black-eyed fiow'rs and quite as
And lovers came there by the score, of every
age and kind,
But not one the story goes was quite to Susie's
Their signs, their protestations, and their
pleadings made her Ill y
TIL ali at once upon the scene hove Penn an
Bill.
de came from old Montana and he rode a brcn-
He had a rather howd'y'do and roush-and-tum-
bic air;
His trousers were of buckskin and his coat OF
furry stuff
His hat was drab of color and its brim was wide
enough;
Upon each leg stalwart boot reached just
above the knee,
And in the belt about his waist his weapons
carried he;
A rather strapping lover for our little Susie
still,
She was l,is choice and he was hers, was Penn
Yam Bill.
we wonder that the ivy seeks out the oaken
tree,
And twines her tendrils round him, though
SCARED and gnArled he be;
We wonder that gentle girl, unused TO worldly
cares
Should choose man whose life has been
constant scrap with bears;
An, tbs the nature of the vine, and of the maid
50 when the bold Montana boy came from his
lair to WOO,
The fair Kentucky blossom felt all her heart
Responsive to the purriug of Penn Yam Bill.
He told her OF his cabin in the mountains far
away
OF the catamount that howls by night the wolf
He told her of the grizzly with the automatic
law,
He told her of the Iniun who devours his VIC
of the iayhawk with his tawdry crest and
whiskers in his throat,
OF the great gosh awful sarpent and the Rocky
Mountain goat
\ boo as big as Shakspeare's or as Webster's
Jou could hl
With the yarns that emanated from Penn Van
Bill
Lo, as these mighty prodigies the Westerner
Her pretty mouth falls wide agape-her eyes
get big as plates;
And when he speaks OF VaflllntS That III tne
She shudders aud she clings to him and timidly
cries "Ohl
And then saws he: Dear Susie, III tell you
what to do
You be my wife and none of these ere things
dare poster YOU!
And She She answers, clInSIng close anu
trembling yet: / will.
And then he gives her one big buss, does
Penn-Gan Bill
VII
Ayaunt We poet lovers, with your wishy- washy
laws
Avaunt ye solemn pedants, with your musty,
bookish ways!
Avaunt We Sinking dandies who air your ETH
Quette
Upon the gold your fathers worked SO long and
hard to get!
How empty IS your nothingness beside the
Which lnountaineers delight to tell of border
hills and wales
OF snalX that crawl, OF beasts that yoWl, Of
birds that flap aud thrill
In the wild egregious altitude of Penn an
Bill
Why, over all those modern peaks his honest
feet have trod-
So high above the rest of us he seemed to walk
with God;
He's breGthed the breath of heaven, as it float
ed, pure and free,
From the everlasting snowcaps to the mighty
Western sea;
And he's heard that awful silence which thun-
ders in the ear:
There is a great Jehovah, and His biding place
is here -
These these the solemn voices, and these the
sights that thrill
In the er-away Montana Of Penn Van Bill
OF course she had TO love him, for it was her
neture to;
And she'll wed him in the summer, if all we
hear be true.
The blue grass will be waving in that cool
Kentucky glade
Where the blaok-eyed Susans cluster in the
pleasant walnut shade
Where the doves make mournful music and
the locust trills q song
BY the brook that through the pasture scam
pers merrily along;
And speechless pride and rapture ineffaDle
shall fill
The beatihc bosom of Pern-Yau Bill.