With all dut apologias to Minnesota, we submit:
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On a lake shore, naar a glacier
In a Chistochina olirae,
Dwelt a Pleistocene old-timer
And hi 8 daughter. Clementine*
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Chorus,
Oh ray darling, ph my darling,
Chistochina Clementine,
Parts of you are lost forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine*
Oh, her teeth were big as torab-*stones
And her nose was platyrrhine,
Mighty" sapcious and: prognathous-. •
Were the Jaws of Clementine.*- Yl
Drove she mammoths .to the water Wr
Every morning . just.at nine,. . •,
Stubbed her toe on the Nabesna,.... •• V\
Fell into the freezing brine* '
Blubber lips-among the cracked .ice ■
Blowing steam and spoutingvslimet *
- But, alas she was no whalercow,,. •
So subsided Clementine* , 0...
. B*P.«R* men, with- ft,* dozer,»,• •• *. < ; ,■
Planing bumps left by 'the rime,"
Up they broughtr her, Asia1 s daughter.,.
PIeisto scenic'Clementine*
Counting varves and sif ting-., gravel,
3one8 and beads, one at a time,
Dr* Ivar got her together, ',
Fossil, flapper, Clementine*
And atr. Yuletide, near her,, mops e-hide
Wigwam ‘♦neath a snowy pine,
A smoky figure' seems to go
gack and; forthacross the snow,„
jTust the GHOST of Clementine*
Distant cousins, Many dozens,
Now find white men mighty fine, ,V
They maintain her, nor,restrain her,
I)usky darlings, Clementine*
An old-timer who lived here, long ago,j.
Hawkins and who was well-and favorable
homed' Charlie V) )} "/
' known,. bu t. b e c due e h.i
does not like the cold ,here i.si presently living near 1 ,
Hollyv/ood ,Calif, reports seeing.Dr* and Mrs GiUpspiey
once ofKennecott and; now laying i|>4.J^'cso^* Both; ip'ok ’
fine and. are, ha|>pilyV^P'tlye^Tn%/Mppr^ and the4Reeds'
living; in Yucaipa,. Calif, are y.ery. Jvejl .^pparantiy and “
are enjoying dife except1 that./t^y are • oppressed with
a feeling of pity at those, timies when'they stop' pipking
roses for a minute • . and* think’ of; us wallowing up here
in the snow# 'Charlie. said t^iat £rank Carroll wont thru
there recently on his"way t9 ^exas, ,fFrank intends to.,^
spend two years out here and driv§> all the way to V
South America.11 V‘ \ ' v'' -Ja/.j.' \ ^ ' JLV
Charlie said he ' also. saw,, the Jim jMc^apocks in Tucson,.’
very much alive■ in looks-and dct.ipns• * . V ‘
Good, live news is, scarce,.here’now. No one is sick*'
' no one has died, no one divorced, or torn, no fights, and^
the only fires are thise indicated by.tho smoke slowly,
rising from the chimneys along in the middle of"the“*dhyS~