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Hard by an excavated street one sat / In solitary session on the sand; / And ever and anon he spake and spat / And spake again -- a yellow skull in hand, / To which that retrospective Pioneer / Addressed the few remarks that follow here:
"Who are you? Did you come 'der blains agross,' / Or 'Horn aroundt'? In days o' '49 / Did them thar eye-holes see the Southern Cross / From the Antarctic Sea git up an' shine? / Or did you drive a bull team 'all the way / From Pike,' with Mr. Joseph Bowers? -- say!