 He 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 talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon...  Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal - Page 5201899Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1889 - 536 pages
...were'nt no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One xvife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike ; A keerless man in...To mind the pilot's bell; And if ever the Prairie Bell took fire, — A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul... | |
 | American poetry - 1889 - 532 pages
...were'nt no saint, — them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in N'atchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike ; A keerless man in...flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowcd how. And this was all the religion he had, — To treat his engine well; Never be passed on... | |
 | John Hay - 1890 - 286 pages
...Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks The night of the Prairie Belle ? One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his...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;... | |
 | Thomas William Herringshaw - American poetry - 1890 - 1032 pages
...were n't no saint,— them engineers Is all pretty much alike, — One wife in Natchez-under-tho-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in i\ row. But he never funked, and he never lied,— I reckon he never knew how. All boats had their... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1893 - 148 pages
...He weren't no saint — them engineers Is pretty much all alike, One wife at Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here in Pike. A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward man in a row ; But he never flunked and he never lied, I reckon he didn't know how. And this was all... | |
 | Authorship - 1897 - 266 pages
...pretty much alike — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here in Pike ; A kcerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a...he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how." Concerning these lines the matter-of-fact •criticism was made years ago that if Mr. Bludso "never... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 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...was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never funked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had:... | |
 | Robert Ford - American literature - 1897 - 340 pages
...He weren't no saint — them engineers Is pretty much all alike, One wife at Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here in Pike. A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward band in a row ; But he never flunked and he never lied, I reckon he didn't know how. And this was all... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 614 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...Never be passed on the river To mind the pilot's bell ; 1 Published by permission of Iloughton, Mifflin & Co. And if ever the "Prairie Belle" took fire,—... | |
 | Anthologies - 1899 - 200 pages
...pretty much alike — One wife in Natchez- under- the-Hill, And another one here in Pike. A kecrlcss man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a...knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To mind the pilot's bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire— A thousand times he Bwore He'd hold... | |
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