The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker / Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.

by Ezra Meeker

When girls wore woolen dresses

And boys wore pants of tow;

And shoes were made of cowhide

And socks of homespun wool;

And children did a half-day's work

Before they went to school.

Chorus.

Some fifty years ago;

Some fifty years ago;

The men and the boys