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What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, / For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; / The camp wuz new 'nd noisy, 'nd only modrit sized, / So fashionable sossiety wuz hardly crystallized. / There hadn't been no grand events to interest the men, / But a lynchin', or a inquest, or a jackpot now an' then. / The wimmin-folks wuz mighty scarce, for wimmin, ez a rool, / Don't go to Colorado much, excep' for teachin' school, / An' bein' scarce an' chipper and pretty (like as not), / The bachelors perpose, 'nd air accepted on the spot.
Now Sorry Tom wuz owner uv the Gosh-all-Hemlock mine, / The wich allowed his better haff to dress all-fired fine; / For Sorry Tom wuz mighty proud uv her, an' she uv him, / Though _she_ wuz short an' tacky, an' _he_ wuz tall an' slim, / An' _she_ wuz edjicated, an' Sorry Tom wuz _not_, / Yet, for _her_ sake, he'd whack up every cussid cent he'd got! / Waal, jest by way uv celebratin' matrimonial joys, / She thought she'd give a conversazzhyony to the boys, -- / A peert an' likely lady, 'nd ez full uv 'cute idees / 'Nd uv etiquettish notions ez a fyste is full uv fleas.