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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1895)
12 THE COURIER I I! H i IS e l-t I' . A HAbFBAGK FROM WAYBACK. lie was a young Yalo graduate And ho hied him to the west, Oblivious of fear or fate And fashionably dressed. He landed out at Sante Fe And captured the town by storm, Thought naught he said, or didn't say, But chiefly because of his form. Ono night in Dutchy's restaurant Assembled a famous crowd; Shanks, Deep Gulch Mike and Sandy Grant: Red Thompson and Aleck Dowd; A lawyer chap they called the Judge, And Billings of Navajo; Each pledged the other in Dutchy's budge That the tenderfoot must go. Right hero the subject of their scorn Walued into the restaurant; tlo ordered "beefsteak rare with corn," In manner nonchalant. Then up and spake big Aleck Dowd: "You'll first take a drink with Mike?" "Nay, nay, Pauline,"' in no way cowed, Said the Yale youth, earless like. Then Dowd, advancing, pulled his gun And remarked in sneering tones: "You'll take a drink, or there'll be fun, Likewise some blood and groans!" Ab sudden as the lightning's Hash Our youth worked the elbow charm; The pistol Hew through a mirror, crash! And Dowd had a broken arm. Now the other toughs on our athlete closed, When Shanks got a touch-down thud; Next a clever knee interposed, And Billings threw up blood. Deep Gulch Miko had his unkempt head Cross-split on a stone spitoon, While Sandy Grant was put to bed Center-rushed to a deadly swoon. Red Thompson, with a wild, 6caied look Made tracks for a passing car; And the lawyer chap our hero took And threw him over the bar! "How'd ye do it?"' asked barkeep' Pete, And his eycs wore a .vatery gleam; Said the student, "They ye easj meat, I've played on our foot baft ieam."' XGeokge Moss. rJ I-IIHIXXSV I m jSst -i '.US' 1 rfSI UKTm -A 1 I V. IIJ i aiLw MK AMS i 1 "Ah won't Johnnie be tickled to death with these ten-pins. 2 "Here, Johnnie, I'll como back in a moment and show you how to knock them down. L f- 3 But it seems that l . m ! If SS i Johnnie was an- -old hand G-at it.