The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-02
Farewell Loucks,e. Old Rox


10 Hiram Timber Loucks, my for
mer lover, guardian, protector and
best friend:
Ihou art gone, but not forgotten and
as Take my typewriter upon nv knee
and drop you these few lines, tears
Will untsidden start as l bid YOU this
last and long farewell
But Hiram, can but remen,ber
when was atfectionately drawn close
10 your side and nestled my heal on
your alfalfa whiskers, as with your
squeaky voice you told me that vu,
loved me. [ believed you thel., but
now know better. You have left mo
ana returned to your first love. but do
you remember the many times yoy
whispered in my ear that that love to
which you have now returned was liy
Ing life OF shame?
How could you do it, Hiram?
shudder now to think of our court
SNIP SO young and Inexperienced,
you an OLD hand at the business. but
"hen YOU proposed that [ become dish
washer and housekeeper for YOU and
your pa;amour that you and she MIGHT
I've IN Illicit ease, and she to hask in
the sunshine of your bewhiskered d
smile, then learned your true charac-
Ter and have never loved YOU since.
When you thought thai my people
were all stuck on your Apollo-like
'orm and that you could stampede
them all into the republican ranks
your trolley was off, Hiram; when Won
TOOK the bits in your teeth. with head
up anc tail over the dashboard. and
started for the republican swarnps. in
stead OF wildly following you as you an
ticlpated, we just cut the belly-band
unfastened the breeching, pulled away
the crupper and let you go GALLAGHER,
now relinquish all claims of every
KIND including sagister's lien, which
klt says am entitled to and which he
ofered to enforce free of charge, but 7
would not have it.
BY the way, Hiram, Kit tells me thar
you are not the solid fellow of vo,n.
new love, that she is already tired of
you and anxious to get rid of you, does
not allow you to eat at the table nor
sleep in the house, that you are onlv
considered cham ber-maid in tho rs-
puollcan stable. compelled to sleep in
the haymow under saddle-blanket,
hlG declares be is the solid man of vour
new love and that you seem contented |
to take care OF the mules.
Kit showed me your letter to vour
new love, and you do me great inius-
tlce when you say that was not faith
1ul to you, Hiram. While | did not !
over-exert myself to send you to the
United States senate, it was because I
knew you were not proper person for |
that position, and for me to send YOU I
there as such and have people make /
lnvldlous comparisons between you and /
a real senator would have broken nv
heart.
enclose herewith letter received
since you left me, from your old friend.
Herr Most. Now, Hiram, when your
new love calls on you for an assessment
thls 1ail hope you will be treated by
her as we'll as | would treat you, and
AFTER you have done your fall blowing
In the north field, had supper and,
weary and worn, you go to the granarv
TO I'LL the sacks with accent wheat lev
ldence OF the single gold standard and
republican freight rates], when YOU
pull OF your boots and government
socks and crawl into the wheat-bin
nope that your new love will at least
hold the sacks for you, Hiram.
l.Wlll now ask OF you the only favor
l ever expect TO request at your hands.
When you get your 40-cent wheat load
ed, crawled onto your load and headed
your narrow-guage mules toward AL
truria, ,-as the dust of cart tn mingles
with the perspiration and mixes NOR