 And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied : I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engine well, Never be passed on the river, To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle...  Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal - Page 5201899Full view - About this book
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1913 - 632 pages
...To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, A thousand times he swore, He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got...day came at last — The Movastar was a better boat, And so came a-tearin' along that night, The oldest craft on the line, With a nigger squat on her safety-valve,... | |
 | John Hay - 1913 - 284 pages
...mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire,—- A thousand times he swore, He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — JIM BLUDSO. II The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed.... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 pages
...weren't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | 1916 - 296 pages
...were n't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she would n't be passed. And so she... | |
 | CLARENCE L. HAY - 1916 - 298 pages
...awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how. [3] And this was all the religion he had, — To treat...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she would n't be passed. And so she... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...weren't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchcz-under-thc-Hill son come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | Edwin Bradley Richards - American poetry - 1919 - 170 pages
...weren't no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike,— One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1920 - 412 pages
...weren't no saint — them engineers Is all pretty much alike — One wife ha Natchez-under-the-hill, ^' And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...day came at last — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Bette she wouldn't be passed. And so she came tearing along that night — The oldest craft... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1016 pages
...lied ; I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engines well; Never be passed on the river; To mind the pilot's...the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats have their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last. The Movastar was a better boat, But the... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1921 - 466 pages
...awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how. II And this was all the religion he had: To treat his...boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she... | |
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