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On the Pier.
An American Idyll.
Our friend, Dapper English, on a Mississippi Pier, awaits the advent by river boat, of an Americaness whom he adores. A hunter, who will voyage by the same boat, drinks freely until its arrival, and thus urbanely accosts Dapper:—
Look ye hyar, young feller! Not you, ye wizen’d old stoat!
Him! that smarty chap. What flower’s that in your coat?
It looks so bright an’ red ’longside ’o that sprig o’ green,
I like the look of it rayther. Don’t you know what I mean?
Don’t yer know who I am? Look hyar! Y’ see that knife?
It’s dug out o’ human an’ grizzly the red and ragin’ life.