SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 9

SELECT POETRY.

l& - - — ■: - -■ — • — . .. .- 'f Tfffi IDYL OF. BATTLE HOLLOW. /' Was or the Kbbeluok, lßs4 - i ""' 80, iWt-ihar, now so? Aa& it ain't no- -( thin', — no! r — .",, , „ ' X«<ldMir l « 11 jl»jrjri»ieU"aiutydufdlluiyeJfd6n'fcj I »jrjri»ieU"aiutydufdlluiyeJfd6n'fc And it'a* 1 *' IBella,1 Bella, tell **, &o ? " audit 1 * " Belle, T iijttiio?" " -: \&n& "Wot's Major aijl' TiU-rm gick"o^ifc«ll— bo Ivm, bat I s'pose (Thet is notbin' t* you. WflU, tfceh, ]iiten. yer _i.Vj»>: ' ; It was after the fighi and ground us all night- ' Thar wai-poppin' and shooting a powerful sight:- . And the niggers had fled, and; Aunt, -Ohio wit. ;• 'a-4>ed, !' .^■^■•'t <"'- . ' : ' ' ( „ i^d-.^ifa^and Uilly -were inr*ha Jih«cl. j ' v h . £ nd Ji! raiw> " t tl t , and-nojkhiu' w&i,wgb 4 ' Bat iht growHii' of '^aunbn low down in the slnr. . •i:eii''j;:. > \r > ' <'< .-" • , •- . '-• .- ; -," <ii • w^P } *$?• noi ~ a $P°P a» J rau to the spring . piU 1 fence rail and a broken-'dbwfi n<—And^fcird^id^.'.Kerohß&J^n < —And^fcird^id^.'.Kerohß&J^ as it«tibnatree, ■ ' lt lft n e»°W e %ad glad to ace, me ; * ■ Ana I filled up my^aa and 'risen to go, , ■ - ij V : Whtenupcom'es th&ltfajoi*aoa.ntefin' slow. ' ' When & 'aaw We h^re l^ in hia reins, and, then . >- 11-:I 1 -: threw ';N . • ~-- ; - 1 Pa. the gate-poit hi»'bridl«, and— what does he do ' , , , . Bat comw down where I 'sat, and he lifted his ' . ' .' \&atk he sayt— well, there ain't any need to tell „- that-r .v . , . •. ' ■ ' , • Twas some foolishnecs, sure, but it mounted ,to*hit, ' .'.l' ' r , A^JFhit'he asked for a drink, and he wanted— a •^^^kist. 1 * -• .•' / . i .-: .- • . .' i'■ - . ; r I «aid (I was mad), . "For the water, my lad, ■'.' ' , • -r '••' You?t* t<to big and mast stoop , for a kiss it's ,-, , -as bid — ■ , ' ' . -. .<■'>. ' •' i , You rt^n't near big enough," and I turned in a - •»'- huff,.- '.*■":' ■ - < When that Major he laid his white hand on my ' 'Cnff,; : -: >-„,• i ! ■ And he' says, ."You're a trump! , Take my !I piitoi, d6ntfear! ;' . • \ Puf shoot the next man that insults you,' my 4«*r." , s „, ' Then hegtoops to tbe pool, very quiet and cold, Leavin' me with that pjitol, stuok there like .a. ■'- ' When there flashed in my sight a quick glimmer •■.Of light ' ..' " ; ' "; " , .From the top of the little 'stone fence on the . : . rights „ >••• , « , j '" .And' l knew 'twas a rifle, and Track of it all '. Besethe face of that bushW hacker Cherokeevf „-^aUi , ..„.,,...' Then I felt in my dread that the . moment the :•: a 'bifad. i >"' ' Or.that Majo^ was lifted the Major was dead : And I st'oodgtill and white, but Lord ! gals in spite • ' - Of my care, that dsrned pistol went on* in my frighff,- .-.,'. '\ - '•■ ■' J Went off— true as Gospel ! — and strangest of all •- It aetooally injured that Gheroke'e ijall. * That's all now, go long. Yes", sgme fplks. thinks 1 ' ' it'-s *rong, ". ' . .And thar*s some wants to know to what side I belong; . ■ But,' l says :" Served him right J" and J go- all ■ . •my might, , In love or in war, for a fair stand-up fight', And has for the Major— sho ! gals don't you ■ • ■ know* ; " ' Thet — Lord ! — thar's his itep in the garden below.