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Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 / A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun. / His name wuz Cantell Whoppers, 'nd he wuz a sight ter view / Ez he walked inter the orfice 'nd inquired fer work ter do. / Thar warn't no places vacant then, -- fer be it understood, / That wuz the time when talent flourished at that altitood; / But thar the stranger lingered, tellin' Raymond 'nd the rest / Uv what perdigious wonders he could do when at his best, / Till finally he stated (quite by chance) that he hed done / A heap uv work with Dana on the Noo York Sun.
Wall, that wuz quite another thing; we owned that ary cuss / Who'd worked f'r Mr. Dana _must_ be good enough fer _us_! / And so we tuk the stranger's word 'nd nipped him while we could, / For if _we didn't_ take him we knew John Arkins _would_; / And Cooper, too, wuz mouzin' round fer enterprise 'nd brains, / Whenever them commodities blew in across the plains. / At any rate we nailed him, which made ol' Cooper swear / And Arkins tear out handfuls uv his copious curly hair; / But _we_ set back and cackled, 'nd bed a power uv fun / With our man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.