 He weren't no saint — them engineers Is all pretty much alike — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied — • I reckon...  Public Opinion - Page 2471898Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 808 pages
...here in Pike ; A Keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flanked, and he never lied, I reckon he never knowed how. "...nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore." The sub-feeling clearly is that men who live a life of something like license, if there be a law within... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...here, in Pike. A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, nt He M hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip,... | |
 | John Hay - 1871 - 188 pages
...keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied,I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion...Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore, He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip,... | |
 | John Hay - 1873 - 206 pages
...in Pike ; A keerless man in 'his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, I reckon he never knowed how. And...Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore, He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. The Movastar was a better boat,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 466 pages
...And an awkward hand in a row, But he never funk'd, and he never lied, — I reckon he never know'd how. And this was all the religion he had, — To treat his engine well, Never be pass'd on the river, To mind the pilot's bell, And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire — A thousand... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...engineer of the "Prairie Belle" "weren't no saint," but he'd resolved "if ever the Prairie Belle tuck fire He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore." He was as good as his word, and all but himself reached shore in safety. He "passed in his cheeks,"... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...And an awkward hand in a row, lint he never flunked, and he never lied, — 1 reckon he never kuowed how. And this was all the religion he had,— To treat...well; Never be passed on the river To mind the pilot's IK.!!; And if ever the Prairia Belle took fire,— A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pages
...in Pike. A keerless man in his talk was Jim. And an awkward man in a row — But he never flunked, and he never lied ; I reckon he never knowed how....this was all the religion he had — To treat his engines well ; Never be passed on the river ; To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle... | |
 | 1896 - 864 pages
...was his next essay. It was suggested by John Hay's poem, " Jim Bludso," and illustrated the lines : " A thousand times he swore He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore." The hero, Jim, is standing at his post like a rock, the cruel flames roasting him, dying that his passengers... | |
 | William De Vere - 1885 - 176 pages
...Natchez-under-the-Hill, And another one here, in Pike. A careless man in his talk was Jim, But he never pinked, and he never lied, I reckon he never knowed how. And...all the religion he had — To treat his engine well ; Kever be passed on the river ; To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the " Prairie Belle " took... | |
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