Just what the trouble war about, but Bill war in the fray,
And he helped to beat the Chinaman in a rather brutal way.
Durant weren’t bad at heart, ye know, but like too many others,
He didn’t like Mongolians, nor own ’um men and brothers;
And I often heard him say that if the Chinamen wer near
He’d cut the leper’s pigtail off and stick it through his ear.
One evening Lizzie (Durant’s wife) and little Tot, the child,
Were comin’ homeward down the hills when all at once a wild
And fearful howl were heard behind—two wolves were on their track,
Liz says she stopped and grabbed the child and threw it on her back.