Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-09
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SOME PRAIRIE BREEZEs.
MYSTERIES.
Sometimes you read of ladies grand
With naughty mien and airs,
Who at society's soirees
Go sweeping UP the stairs"
1t always seems so awkward for
It should be turned around,
They'd find it so much easier if
They'd only sweep 'em down,
And then you read: "Luella fair
With one shrill, piercing cry,
Fell on his neck!" 1t maybe right
But somehow always 4
Can't feel but that of Reginald
"TWonld make a groggy wreck,
If really sweet Luella fair
Did fall upon his neck!
Again you see: ''Clarissa then
Dropped her love-laden eyes,
And looked down at the foor!!, How in.
The name of all that's wise
Could sweet Carissa see the floor
No matter how she tries,
Or anything at alltif she
Had really dropped her eyes?
"Her face fell, is another phrase
Full often used in books,
Just think what havoc dire it plays
With any girls good looks!
For surely no man could endure
To look at her at all,
If, as we real, in truth, the poor
Girls face did really fall!
Fire flashed from ner blue eyes!'
Why if
The fire did really fly,
AS we oft read, insurance rates
Would be uplifted high,
And no one would pass her close by
On stop and talk with her,
Unless there was, right near at hand,
"A fire extinguisher!
ADRY SPELL.
"Speakin' O dry spells,,' says Rog-
ers, reminds me o. one ii went
through,
When we was a settlin' tn prairie an
all o. tn frontier was new.
We came out from back in th' OF states
an took up some claims on th'
plain,
Staid there for year In all that time
there wasn't a drizzle O rain.
Tn rain spigot mus a been busted or.
else there was no spigot there,
For we tried every known means o.
coaxin' we knew from a swear to
a, prayer,
Th' sun jes' shone down like tn OF boy
was comm right outen TIL sky,
An tn more that we prayed for a
rainstorm, th' more it jes' KEEP git
tim dry.
Town lines was warped all to blazes,
tn likes of 1T never seen sence,
A road that had followed a highway
was twisted right through a wire
fence,
TIL fishes in all Of tn rivers lay gaspin'
right out On TIL brink,
A'wigglin' their gills and implorin' an
pleadin' for something to drink,
TIL rain barrels all curled up an
busted, am all o. tn wells that were
there
Dried up an was nothin' all summer.
but caverns for STORM hot air,
We only had one drink in two days an
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An strung up a. Teller caught wastin'
good water by takin bath.
TIL dust lay 50 thick OH tn prairies We
sunk right in up4t0 yer knees,
We didn't do nothin' all summer but
travel on snow shoes an sneeze,
In cattle jes' lined up by hundreds a.
bellerin' wildly with thirst
An we simply couldn't do nothin' but
jes' watch 'em dry up an burst,
TIL wasn't no sleepin' at night cause
ye'd hear a continuous crash
%, doors warpin of'n their hinges and
winders right 0uten TIL sash,
An many a time On tn prairie ye'd find
jes' some dust an old cfoe's
Where some feller'd blown up like
puff-ball from TIL drouth, an a
turned up his toes.
Two fellers got caught in a frame
house an both starved to death
'thout a. doubt
For tn blamed thing warped so in TIL
night time they couldn't find any
way out. sss5
Tn WindmiIIs was twisted like cork
screws. root cellars right euten TIL
ground,
An there wasn't a fence post a stand
in in all o TIL neiglborhood
round,
An about TIL mos Gurus happenin' in
all D that dry spell, I low,
When I come to look back am consider
tn strange things that happened,
from now,
Was the case of a c'ianity howler-he
stuck TIL dry spell nearly through,
Stood 1T for nigh all tn summer, but
finally he dried up tool
When Rogers said this, up spoke VIII
son, with a GURUS light In his eye:
IF that err las case is authentic, by
gosh but IT mug a been dryv
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