The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-06
A PIONEER OF PCGET SOUND.


The following verses. written By ex Isec-
Rotary OF State Allen Weir. were read by
him at the meeting OF the Washington
Pioneer Association last Wednesday:
Wife. sit nay wrapper en- slippers. wun.
En- my pipe en- terhakker. too.
Kinder seems 'zn sats roornatiz
Keep ne from bsin ez spry e. you
Draw your cheer up cios,er. wife
The dishes kin rest q spell
En- now tnat suppers over
I've got story TO tell.
Twan's alluz ,hss-a-way. hey w1ke3
I lister De strcnger'n you
When WIZ younger en- fuller In NE
4 cd do everything tner WIZ 70 DO
Bat you've done your part. I'll low.
En- aiiuZ hev ARMED yer way.
En- ez fer churnin' or niIkfn' a COW
There want yer beat on the bay.
Let's see It's bin nigh onto forty year
We've logged along together,
A-msksn our way through toll en- keer
In every kind Wv weather,
A-fCin' Tire chores en- keeDin' the house.
En- u1oseyfn' our way along.
We've hoed Our row $ husband and SPOUSE
With peace and plenty a-follerin on.
When we started from old alizzoury
En- kim acrost the plains
Folks couldn't come In sich a pow'ful
hurry
wlth their perrary schooner trains
We druv en- druv, en- camped. with keer,
En- druy en- camped agen:
Il tut Z huh year for US gigsin' here
En- mighty lucky even then.
] mind you wuz young en- hopeful. wife,
En- ez purity sal sz they be,
A-isa nfs the old folks and neishSors fer
En- taGin' yer chances with PIE
We iodged all the Injuns. a-erossin' The
Though their. signs In a plenty we found:
We ken pegGin' along through shine en-
through rain.
A-tryin' 10 find Puget sound.
When we stakea out a claim round this
bay In the bush,
En- built Us a cabin NV logs,
The land want bein taken with much Nv
q rush,
Nur the clans bein' rooted by hogs.
Our nabers were few en- our comforts
were ska'ce.
En- we didn't have much NV view.
En- whenever we wanted TO leave the
place
We padded a siwash canoe.
Our boys en-. gals have taken their Mace
CCept Ned. sleepin' up on yon hilD
fMong the good en- true nv the human
race,
En- they're aoin' us proud with a will.
Course. BIZ has been wild, ZEN got inter
En- wunze he wuz tried at the court:
He allns wux a hedstrong jackanapes
En- follerin' apernstring want his
forte.
But he he'd a good heart. Bill he'd.
He loved his paw en- his NAV;
Wunst n awhile he looked On wine that
WIZ red.
But he never meant to break no law.
We done our dooty by the Children,
En- we teached them the best we could.
But sumtimes II wuz a-bewiIier'n'
To kno' just how ter make 'em good.
I hope Bill III keep straight while knock
En- not let ticker be his ruin:
This new oiv'iizashun with advantages.
Hez a pow'fui lot of temptashuns
Things hev changed a heap. somehow.
Sence we commenst our slashin' hyur
En- sum Nv these changes were fer good.
I'll low.
But sum things Amt list what they
Tother day went up TO the town.
En- wuz ez keerful ez could be
But a Teller hollered TO me 10 turn roun'-
En- thar WIZ a steam kyar a-pintin'
right at me.
] hustled 10 Kit out NV Their way.
But ding me ef twant all I cd do
To keep frum hein' run over by A draw
En- a passed. Of bosses en- kerridges, too
The young fellers with soft kid gloves
today
En- blaclsin' a-shinin' their boots,
Woulan't look quite so slick eff they'd DO
A-rasslin' with fir stumps en- roots.
Mind the time baby Ned WIZ sick. wife,
Course YOU DO There. don't cry!
Never wanted doctor so bad in my life:
But We list couldn't Kit one. no use TO
try.
The wind wuz a-howlin' en- .tormi.':
Canoe only poss-able chance ter go in,
St.ash wouldn't venture till mornin
Cause he said, 'TIyas mesatche wins
We buried pore Ned on the hillside.
With nary preacher fer prayin'
Preparin, ter meet him up yander we've
Sos 20 hear the swee. harp he's a-p,ay-
in.
we never wuz sot much on churches.
I'm we didn't make much NV a show,
Our religion amt paradei with torches
We b'leve Ia doin' about right ez we go
We amt much on creeds ner rerfessin..
Ner We don't make big prayers In the
streets.
But We allus ar thankful fer hlessin'.
En- he good things in lie thes VS.
When the tolls ard The cares Nv this life
I'm our airthly ties we must sever.
Were hopfn' TO ron In \ field NV sweet
clover
En- be LIFT to 10 eothin' fer ever en-
ever.
When The white folks en- 1niuns wuz
nghttn'.
cCept sesha en- Duke nv York tilli-
En- Denny en- Yesier wuz busy rervtdln.
Fer the safety w wtmrnin en- little ones
We wuE u,ightily, Seairt nv the redskins.
But IA Just ~ hsf 81 two pins
Hcv b'n killed. 'eept fer you en- Ter
yours
But them wus the days Nv discourage
Nent want theys
T'Aey passed Ike a storm thet bowed
We soon turned our 'ten,lon to spuds err
En- a-ro5pin wv harley en- clover.
wGtx terrible iucky ter hev YOU
In .hs years ,hat hev gone ky sense
then.
Cause the winnen en- wives wss too
En- uaos; Nv the Fuilkmaias wuz men.
Nv, what a scramslia' Their wuz 'nong
wbca tbe Mercer load Nv girls wuz
brought out
They wuz All oa en- seekin' fanshly TOYS
En' Salchin WUE sent ~ tasr Sn0ut
& whoi4 lot - theas healtif.t "a 5.gsry7ir,
'T1sc. came ike r. rel'uy from heaven
nov pat IN the years sense a-churu,n' en-
skimmia.
Eaea one raisln' oailssrn-'5oa. seven.
Wen. we've 'e3 ouF 6ay in this land vie.
We aisa't icavfu' uucf Ger The nexr nnaS
We've he,t with os,r nahors but Ili,ls Nv
In me questions snse;'led area't vexca
TAe 81 mining stocks ea' snap" corner
Waite the RAJ estate srers. Ike a boss
Hes asn Uneasy bout savln' his bacon.