The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-18
mopJEsKY AS CANCEL.

Afore we went to Denver we heered the Tabor
Allowed by critics ez the finest opry in the land,
And roundin' up at Denver in the fall OF 81
Well heeled in pint NV locker nd pinin' for
We told Bin Bush that we wuS fixed quite com
f'table for wealth
You see we knew Bill Bush at Central City years
ago
Bill run the Grand for Tabor, md he gin us TO
Es how we really otter see Modjesky as Cancel
Three fingered Hoover stated that he'd great
deal rDther go
To cali on Charley sampson than frequent opry
show
"The queen NV tragedy" SEE he, sis wot I've
never seen,
And reckon there is more for me in some other
"Git OUT seq Bill. disgusted-like, land can't
you never find
pleasure in the things nv lie which elleryates
the mind?
You've set around in Casey's restaurant year
OF more
An heerd OF Yer de Blaw perform shelf doovers
Only to come down here among us tong an say
you feel
You'd rathar take iu faro than opry axe Ca
meelv =
But il seems il wurnt no opry, but a sort NV SER
ious play
With hesp NV talk an dressin' that wuz both
dekoiiytay:
A young chap sparks gal who's caught dock
that's old an wealthy
She has cold, nd faintin' fits, an is gin'rally
unhealthy;
She says she haze q record, but the young chap
And it looks ez if the Teller wuz proper likely
kind
Until his old man sneaks around and makes a
dirty break
And the young one plays the sucker nd gives
the girl the shake
"Armo! Armol' she hollers, but he filings her
And says ne ainteg goin' to have no truck with
her no more!
At that Three Fingered Hoover says: "Ill chip
into this game
And see ii Red Hoss mountain cannot recon-
struct the same;
/ won't set by an see the feeiins Wv a lady
Col durn a critter. anyhow, that does woman
dirt!''
And stepped upon the platform with the women
folks and men
Across the trough OF gaslights he bounded like a
An grabbed Arno an hove him thro' the land
scape In the rear,
And then we seen him shed his hat an rever-
And put his strong arms tenderly around the
gal Cancel
A-standin' in his stockin' feet, his heighth wuz
And huskier man than Hoover wnz you could
not hope TO see;
He downed f4afe Dawson wrasslin', an one night
Three Cornish miners that came into camp from
Roarin' erick
To clean ont Casey's restaurant an do the town,
they said
He could whip his weight in wildcats, an paint
whole townships red
DIT
manly heart
A cyclone couldn't phase, but any child could
rend apart;
Just like themountain pine witch dares the storm
that bowls along,
But rocks the winds NV summer time an sings
soothin' song.
Cancel" says he, .syour record is agn you I'll
allow,
But, bein' you're woman, you'll get justice any,
how,
So, If you say you're sorry and intend to travel
straight
Why, never mind that other chap with witch you
I'll marry you myself. and take you back to-mor-
row night
To the camp on Red Hoss mountain, where the
boys'll treat you white
Where Casey runs a tabblc dote, and folks are
brave nd true;
Where there amt no ancient history to bother
you:
Where there amt no law but honesty, no evil
dence but facts;
Where, between the verdick and the rope, there
amt no 0Rter dctsi'
wuz mighty proud NV Hoover, but the folks be-
gan to shout
That the Teller was intrudin' an would some
one put him out.
well, mol reckon not" SEE i, or words to
that effect,
Ez perdueed a argument thought they might
A long an harnsome weepon I'd pre-emptied
when come
n,,fW b;o apr ;,,;o
plum,
wich, when presented properly, was very apt to
sway
The popular opinion in most persuasive way:
"Well, no. reckon not! SEE /, but didn't
say no more,
observin' that there WIZ ginral NOV ement to-
ward the door.
First Dr. Lemen he allowed that he had got to GO
And see patient he Jest heerd was lynn very
low.
An Charlie Toll riz up an said he guessed he'd
iine the Dock
An go to see client wich wuz waitin' round
the block;
John Atkins reckollected he had interviews to
write,
And previous engagements hurried Cooper from
Cal Cole went ont to buy boss, Fred skifr aud
Belford too,
And stapleton remembered that he had heaps
NV work 10 do;
Somehow or other, every one WIZ full of bust
then
LeastWlse they all vamooSed and didn't bother
lis again.
! reckollect that Willard Morse an Bush come
runnin' in
A holierin ''Oh. wot idiots you two burned
fools have bceni'
| reckollect that they allowed we'd made a big
mistake
They otter knowed us tenderfoots was sure to
make break!
An while Modjesky stated we wuz somewhat Off
base,
half opined she liked it, by the look upon her
face
| reekollect that Hoover regretted he done wrong
in THROWN that there actor through a vista ten
miles long,
| reckollect all Shuck hands and ordered vim
frappay-
And never shall forget the head l had on me
next day
haven't seen Modjesky since-rm hopin' to
agen--
She's goin' to show in Denver soon-rn go to see
An maybe shall speak to her, witch, if do,
twill be
About the old TREND restin' by the mightyrwest-
eTn sea.
simple man. perhaps, but ez good ez gold an
true eZ steel:
He could whip his weight in wildcats aud you
neueT heerd him squeal
Good to the helpless an the weak-a brave an
manly heart
4 cyclone couldn't phase, but any child could
rend apart;
So like the anountain pine that dares the storm
wlch sweeps along.
But rocks the winds NV summer time an sings a
soothln song. Eugene Field.
Ages of United States Senators.
Chicaun TrfT