Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-04-06
THAT GENTLEMAN FROM BOSTON TOWN.
[An Idyi Of Ore0oml
BY JeAoptS MILLER


Two %epfoot brothers loved q fair
Young lady. rich and good to ssei
And oh, her black abundant hair
Aud oh, her wchderous witcheryl
Her father kept cattle farm;
These brothers kept her safe from harmi
From harm Of cattle on the hill
From thick necRed bulls, loud believing
The livelong morning loud and shrill,
And flashing sides like anythingi
From roaring bulls that tossed the sand
And paved the lilies from the land.
There rane a third young man. he came
From tar ard famous Boston town.
He was not handsome, was not game
But he could cook goose" as brown
As any man that set foot on
Tho sunlit shores of oregon.
This Boston man he taught the school,
Taught gentleness and love alwaysi
Said love and kindness, as rule
Would ultimately make II pay.
He was go gontlo, kind, that he
Could make noun and verb agree
So hen, one day, tho brothers grew.
All Jealous and did strip to fight,
He gently stood between the two
And meekly told them twas not right,
Il have a higher. better plan,
Out spake this gentle Boston man.
My plan is this; Forget this fray
About that lily hand OF hersi
Go take your guns and hunt all day
High up yon lofty hill OF frs,
And while you hunt, 10y loving doves,
Why / will learn which one she loves.
The brothers sat the windy hill,
Their hair shOne yellow, like spun gold,
Their rifles crossed their laps. but still
They sat and sighed aud shook with cold.
Their hearts lay bleeding far below;
Above them cleaned white peaks OF snow.
~, Of, i,ourds la, croucbipg aim and neat:
spotted circle in the grass,
Their valley lay beneath their feet;
They heard the VIDE winged eagles pass
The eug cleft the clouds above,
let what could they but sigh and love2
If l could die, the elder sighed,
My dear young brother here might we'd
oh would to heaven had diedl'
The younger sighed with Blended head,
Ton each looked each full in the face
And each sprang up and stood in place.
III | could die, the elder spaks,
ID q by your hand, the world would say
Twas accident and for her sake,
Dear bi Cthtr be it SO, pray
n Ot that, the younsster nobly said,
Then tossed his gun and turned his head.
\ Id fifty paces batk he paced,
And as he paced he drew the bali
Then sudden stopped and wheeled and faced
His brother TO the death and fall.
Two shots rang wild upon thu air,
But lot the two stood harmless there
The eagle poised high in the air;
Far, fur be ow the believing
u bullo cks ceased and everywhere
Vast silence sat all questioning.
fLe spotted hounds ran circling round,
Iheif red, wet noses to the ground.
AMI 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, anu if she choose not me,
But all on you her favors fall
This valiant scene, i'll all life ends
Pear 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
hose brothers scarce knew what to do.
They sought the kind schoolmaster out
As swift us sweeps the light of morn;
They could but love- they could not doubt
This man so gentle in u horn.
They cried: Now whose the lily hand,
hat lady OF this web.oot land?'
they bowed before the big nosed man,
That long nosed man from Boston town;
they talked as only low rs can,
They talked, but he could only frown;
Ind still they talked, and still they plead
1t was pleading with tho dead.
ut last this Boston man did speak
Her father has thousand ceows,
in 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
i liked the looks OF this big heouse@
My lovely boys won't you come int
Her father has a thousand ceows,
He aleo has a heap of tin
The guirl? Oh yes, the guirl you see.
Tho guirl just meow she married me-