Like most of bottles used in mining camps,
The revenue collector's excise stamps.
The senior of the rescued men appeared
In age to crowd the three-score years and ten;
Of stalwart form, with whitened hair and beard,
The peer of multitudes of younger men,
In matters appertaining to physique;
He first recovered and essayed to speak.
As Dad McGuire and kind old Uncle Jim
Were ministering as best they could to him,