New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-19
BALLADS OF THE PAVE.
THE MAN FROM THE FAR NORTH

And aIao one from Corlsar's Hook
Was likewise standing there.
And cen there was Harlem man.
And one from Barrow street
with one who came from Little Iweh'h'
They all were glad to meet
They stood together at a bar
And drank OF beer and gin
stranger stepped 10 them and ASKED
II he was counted int
Then spake the man from Barrow stree"
And asked him what 't~ould De-
He answered no preferred Old Crow
The barkccp gave II he.
He took a drink full deep and long,
He seemed 10 iiiSo the taste;
He slowly sct the e1blet down,
But still the bar he faced
al am q sailor" spake the man,
"The world i've sailed around;
I'VE Just returned from Arctic climes,
Whore ice and bars abound
Then spaks tho Harlem man these words:
"You como from fee and snow
Pray. DRINK again Tho man feplled'
"A little moro Old Crow
Another glass was swallowed down
BY him from countries faF;
10 sadly wiped away q tear,
But still he faced the bar.
IL come from haunts Of seals and whales,
And where the tccbergs roll;
I come from where there's most and snow
i've sought the Northern Pole!7
spake then the man from Blocker street,
As he his hand did shake;
al honor you, my friend, and hope
Another drink you'n take"
ave Arctic travellers seldom drink.
And yot scarcely know
How could manage 10 refuse
A ilttlo moro Old crow
Then drank tho man a Drumming glaSs
with him from Blceckor street;
Aud then tho man from Little rwelith,~
Ito likewise stood a treat
The Chatham man, he took his turn,
And exc him from the Hook,
sull he from lands of untrOd leo
his Old Crow sadly took.
And then he paused and wiped swg
Another largo-slAcd tear,
And said Tho stories | could tell
You'd not believe, fear.
"rvo been With seals and bars and whales.
And exc tho ESguImau;
I've faced hunger, thirst aud night,
And frost and ice and snow.
al travelled once two hundred miles
And never sought a bed;
Tho doss fell down with legs worn Of
pIessod lar ahead.
~ iourneyed fourteen hundred niles
a week It only TOOK
The EsquimauX lay down 20 die
never stopped 70 look
" And sometimes food wss very rAes
Dut I've no fault 10 mud,
never went sboVo ten days
But once 81 least / dined.
sOn this great journey sull saw
sach strange aud Tondrous sights;
lako nine hundred miles In width,
And spotted northern lights.
And clio a mighty waterfall
Which fell With laundering sound
NlAgara's but humid spot
10 thls ono that 1 fOand.
And stin press on further North
Add never turn aside:
In, winter comes. tho Dight shuts down
only onward stride.
"How come we to a horrid place,
The tempest Swlrls around,
Tho glaciers CreAk, IN, Wild beasts howl,
CONCLUSIONS shake the ground.
@Coid, darkness, leo and savage beasts.
And eke the wild tem pest;
Tho iccbcrgs clash. the heayeos roar
only forward prest.'
uIcre tainted him from Bleeckrr street;
They all were dcUdiy pale.
And each man shook In every limb
10 hear tho grswsome taleJ
HBut cold and darkness, ice and death
They arc not all sec;
Tho lnIuns rush at US with knives,
And seek 10 slaughter We.
"Cold. lcc and darkness shut mo In,
And Wild men surge around.
They dash at mo with bloody knives,
fell them TO the ground.
IL fell them TO the earth.
They cover all INC ground,
There's but one left-eiEht feet In height
Ills weight Ave hundred pound.
sic easy weighs Ave hundred pound,
10 has q bloody knife,
He dashes at me With a whoop,
lie seeks to tails my life.
He dashes at me with his knife,
do not try to lec.
calmly grasp him by the feet
And pound tho earth with ho.
(Hero fell the man from Corlcar's Hook,
Il was too much for him.
The others wiped their clammy brows,
And shook IN every llmbJ
sThen passed I onward from these mon,
Through darkness toward my goal
And did you, them gasped he from Twelfth
And did you SEQ the Pole ~"
lie turned and on hIs brow there camo
A large and scomfrl frown;
Sir, no, ! did not seo the Pole
The Mayor had cut Il down.
Then reached they for him as one man.
with him to mop the floor;
He turned and with rapid scoot
Escaped by the door
Then loud and long they talked OF him,
Aud ronndly rsked him DER;
I cannot here set down their words,
For truly these men swore
MORAL.
Slft Arrtic travellers StGrlcs we'll:
They've often not been there;
This man who'd seen tho North Poles stump