Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-05
aaA- aENTLEmAN PROM BOSTON Town.
An Iayl Of 0regon.l
By Jo4QUlS MILLER.


y 10 webfoot brothers loved a fair
Young lady. rich and good to sees
And Oh, her black abundant hair!
ana Oh her WOuderous IgibcheEys
her father Kept q c title farm
These brothers kept her safe from harm
From harm OF cattle on the hill,
From thick-necked bulls, loud believing
The 1Velong morning. loud and shT1us
And lashing sides like anything
From roaring bulls that tossed the sand
And paved the lilies from the land
There came a third young man. Hs came
From TAR and famous Boston town.
He as not handsome, was not game
81. he could cook q goose" as brown
As any man that set foot on
The Bunlit shores OF oregon.
This Boston man he taught the school,
Taught gsntleness and love always;
Said love and kindness, as a rule,
Would ultimately make it pay.
He was so gentle, kind, that he
Could make a noun and verb agree
So hen. one day, the brothers grew.
All Jealous ard did strip to fight,
BE gently stood between the Two
And meskIy told them twas not right.
Il have higher, better plan,
Outspake this gentle Boston man.
MY plan Is this: Forget this fray
About that lily hand OF hers;
Go take your guns and hunt all day
High up yon lofty hill Of frs,
Why. L will learn which one she loves.
The brothers sat the windy hill
Il ir hair shOne yellow, ike spun goids
Their rides crossed their laps, but still
They sat and signed and shook with cold.
Their hearts lay bleeding far below
Above them cleaned white peaks or snow
Their hounds lay crouching, slim and neat;
A spotted circle in the grass,
Their valley lay beneath their 1885,
They heard the Wide-Winged eagles pass
The eagle cleft the clouds above,
Yet what could they but sign ana IoVs!
IF could die, the elder sighed,
MY dear young brother here might wed.
ooh, would to heaven had diedI
The younger sighed with bonded heads
Then eachIOOked each full in the lace
And each sprang up and stood II place
"If could die" the elder spake,
Die by your hand, the world would say
Twas accident and for her sake,
Dear brother, be it so, pray"
Not that, the ycungster nobly said,
Then tossed his gun and turned his head.
And fifty PAGES back he paced,
And as he paced he drew the ball
Then sudden stopped and wheeled and faced
His brother to the death and fail.
Two shots rang wild upon tho air
But, 10 the two stood harmless there.
The eagle poised high in the air;
Far, far below the believing
OF bullOcks ceased, and everywhere
vast silence BaJ all QUESTIONING
The spotted hounds ran circling round
Their red, wet noses to the ground.
Aud now each brother came to know
That each had drawn the deadly ball
And for that fair girl far below
Had sought in vain to silence all.
And then the two did gladly shake,
And thus the elder bravely spake:
Nov let US run right hastily
And tell the kind schOOlmaster all,
Yea yea and if she choose not
But all on you her faVOrs fall,
This valiant scene, till ali life ends,
Dear brother, binds US best OF friends"
The hounds sped down, spotted line
The bulls in tall, abundant grass,
Shook back their horns from bloom and vine
And trumpeted to see them pass
They were so fair, they loved so true,
These brothers scarce knew what to do.
They sought the kind schOolnaster out
AS swift as sweeps the Light of morn;
They could but love. they could not doubt
This man SO gentle, in horn.
They cried: Now, whose the lily hand,
That lady Of this webfoot land?"
They bowed before the big-nosed man,
That lOng-nOsed man from Boston town;
They talked as only lovers can.
They talked but he could only frOWn;
And still they talked, and still they plead;
1t was a pleading with the dead.
At last this Boston man did speak
"Her father has a thousand ceOws,
An hundred bulls all fat and slick
He also has this ample heOuse."
The brothers eyes stuck out thereat
So far you might have hung your hat
It liked the looks Of this big heouse-
My lovely boys, won't you come in?
Her father has thousand COWS,
He also has q heap of tin.
The guiri? oh, yes, the guirl You see
The guirl just meow she married me-