How they wandered o’er the country; how the bridegroom used to bet
He would wed the girl that evening,—how he always pulled the debt;
How his eyes were large and greensome; how, in fact, to end the tale,
Their very latest victim was a fine young man named Gale.
ARIZONA JOHN
When in a situation it always pays the best
To have your wits about you, for it helps the interest;
And a man gets so encouraged by succeedin’ when he tries,
That the more you crowd him downward, the more he’s bound to rise.
As when near Tres Alamos, while workin’ at his mine,