The Return 

 

Nancy's Story 

 

 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I was takin' leave of Nancy Standin out there in the night"  "Then I dragged him on the prairie Through a Turk's Head cactus bed"  "I am standing by her dug-out, Open stands the sagging door"  "Bringing back a hat of water, Through the dim light and the rain"  "Loaded up their prairie schooner, And vamoosed the ranch, fore light"  "He was startled by a stranger's Sudden presence and 'Hello!'"  "Faithful Simon, weak and starving, Groaned and fell beneath his pack"  "Resting calm in fancied safety Sat the elder MacIntyre"  "Once again the twisted branches Of the lone and friendly tree"  "Fiercer with each flying moment Drove the scorching blasts of death"  "Standing there, a pictured goddess Sketched against a lowering storm"  "But, instead, I shot, to scare him, All the buttons off his coat"  

 

BILLY'S REVERY

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No use talking, it's perplexing,

Everything don't look the same;

Never had these curious feelin's

Till those MacIntyres came.

Quit my plowing long 'fore dinner,

Didn't hitch my team again;

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