Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-09
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Continued from last week.

! Now Charlie was a modern Jiggs,
!. Who had no Dinty Moore;
To cheer his heart when Maggie
knocked
His Jiggship plenty sore.
!: And so he packed his little grip
And went his lonely way,
And Maggie found a better mate
In Herbert, so they say.
And Link and Matte Underwood
Lived just across the track,
! So tall she was Link could not reach
But half way up her back.
. Old Harve Tregaskis painted signs
To get a shot of booze,
. And Humpy Harvey hung around,
To get and tell the news.
Bill Srachfeld beloved like a bull
Along the desert town,
A bonehead, Bill, a blowhard sure.
OF very wide renown.
'Tis said one day he blew his nose,
As only Bill could blow,
And that's the last that e'er was
heard
Of Billie Boy below.
James Ireland, a jeweler,
OF rather doubtful class,
| With Daddy Haller-same in trade,
Went down the western pass.
Jim was as fat as any pig,
This truth must be confessed,
He weighed three hundred bloody
pounds
And weighed them all when
dressed.
George Fletcher owned a store
awhile,
A rugged piece of clay;
Oh, he was often known to swear,
But seldom heard to pray.
| think it was because he talked
So everlastingly slow,
He would forget e'er he got through |
What he wished the Lord to know.
Ed Hall was sure to come to town
Whenever court was set;
And if the old boy is alive
He's having someone yet.
Bob Burns, the butcher, pioneered
In bull steak to the town,
But you could never chew it up
So you could get it down.
Now Bob he had a beefy shop,
He opened in those morns,
And cut delicious sirloin steaks
From just behind the horns.
And Wiley Daniels had ranch
Upon the desert gray,
And spite of fate that plucky chap
Did make that venture pay.
Now Wiley once upon a time,
(They say that he forgot)
Told a whole truth, a naked truth,
And tainted on the spot.
Frank AXE, freighter, jumped
his job,
And took a desert claim,
He had the nerve and mighty well n
The old boy played the game.
He married, too, bonny girl
OF fair renown they tell,
They had some kids, and one of
them
They gave the name of Bell.
l cannot even guess;
Perchance it was because that she
Did suffer that distress.
Next Marion House looms large in T
view,
see his bonny smile, +
When Eva Smith came down the pike
1t could be seen a mile.
For Eva was a winsome lass,
And fatal was the art L
She used to turn poor Marion's head,
And captivate his heart.
Now Marion had two shirts, I think,
It may have been but one; +
And yet he bought a clothesline long,
saw him when twas done.
Such was his faith and long ago,
He needed it 1 ween, T
Cor thirty-five eventful years
Have slipped themselves between.
COR now there are full many shacks,
Where first there was one house, s.
Cor Marion was old fashioned and,
So was his loyal spouse.
WV Iva was Auutu IL tuthB
For when she did begin, II
She got a husband strong and true,
Likewise a House thrown in.
hen Roscoe Smith, druggist came
He was not very TALL T.
lie went so close along the walk
He almost touched the wall.
tut Roscoe had the sand to stick,
And stick he has for fair, b
lis patients range from three-x plus,
To dope for growing hair.
Twas said to fetch full flowing locks
And bring them out by night HI
ure men who put it on at eve,
Next day were bald all right.
lie sold a fellow liver dope,
Who died for want of grub, HI
ut neighbors had to come and kill
His liver with a club.