Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-03
THAT orHrIxMAN FROM BOSTON TOWN.
I'm IdyI Of ore0on.l
By JOAQUIN MILLER.

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Two webfoot brothers loved fair
Young lady, rich and good to see;
And oh, her black abundant hair
And oh. her wonderous witcheryl
Her father Kept cattle farm
These brothers kept her safe from nafm:
From harm Of cattle on the hill
From thick-necked bulls, loud believing
The livelong morning, loud and shrili,
And flashing sides like anything;
From roaring bulls that tossed the sand
And paved the lilies from the land.
There came a third young man. he came
From far and famous Boston town.
He was not handsome, was not game,
Buthe could cook o goose as brown
AS any man that set foot on
The sunlit shores OF Oregon.
This Boston man he taught the school,
Taught gentleness and love always;
Said love and kindness, as q rule,
Would ultimately mako it pay.
He was 30 gentle, kind, that he
Could make noun and verb agree.
So when, one day, the brothers grew.
All jealous and did strip to fight,
He gently stood between the two
And meekly told them twas not right.
Il have higher, better plan,
Outspake this gentle Boston man.
4My plan is this Forget this fray
About that lily hand OF hers;,
Go take your gums and hunt all day
high up yon lofty hill Of frs,
And while you hunt my loving doves,
Why, / will learn which one she loves"
The brothers sat the windy hill,
Their hair shone yellow, like spun gold,
Their rides crossed their laps, but still
They sat and sighed and shook with cold.
Their hearts lay bleeding far below;
Above them cleaned white peaks OF snow.
Their hounds lay crouching. slim and neat;
A spotted circle In the grass,
Their valley lay beneath their feet;
They heard the wide-winged eagles pass;
The eagle cleft the clouds above,
Yet what could they but sigh and lover
IF could die, !" the elder sighed,
my dear young brother here might wed.
@Oh would to heaven had died
The younger sighed with Bonded head,
Then each looked each full in the face
And each sprang up and stood IN 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 youngster 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 fall.
Two shots rang wild upon thu air,
But, lol the two stood harmless there.
The eagle poised high in the afr;
Far, far below the believing
OF bullochs ceased, and everywhere
Vast silence sat all questioning.
The spotted hounds ran circling round,
Their red, wet noses TO the ground.
And 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:
"Now let us run right hastily
And tell the kind schoolmaster ALL
Yea, yea, and If she choose not me,
But all on you her favors fall,
This valiant 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 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 schoolmaster out
As swift as sweeps the light Of morn;
They could but love, they could not doubt
M This I man SO gentle. in horn nor ;,, ,,a
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 q 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.
II liked the looks Of this big heouse-
My lovely boys, won't you come in?
Her father has q Thousand ceows,
He also has O heap Of tin.
The guirl? Oh, yes, the guirl you see,
The guirl just meow she married me-"