An’ swallow the Chinaman’s stew.
“The ‘Stockton gang’s’ three miles away;
We’re there before the sun;
There’s fifteen of us breaking the sod
Before the day’s begun.
“There’s no orange bloom on the harness,
But frost on the single-trees,
And the sun shows red over Baldy’s head
As you shiver an’ cough an’ sneeze.”
Monty said there were eighteen verses in all, but he compromised with Leon and Jimmy on eight. By that time Monty’s audience had increased vastly. The doorways were thronged, while a few of Jimmy’s friends had joined him at the piano. Monty dashed into a rollicking cowboy ditty called, “When Rob Got Throwed”: