With all due apologies to IJIinnocote, wo submit:
On a lake shore, near a glacier
In a Chistochina clime,
Dv/elt a Pleistocene old-timer
And hi3 daughter, Clementina•
Chorus,
Oh my darlingi oh my darling,
Chistochina Clementine,
Parts of you are lost forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
Oh, her teeth wore big as tomb-stones
And her nose was platyrrhine,
Mighty sapeious and prognathous
Wore the jaws of Clementine*
Drove she mammoths to the water
‘ Every morning just at nine,
Stubbed her too on the Nabesna,
Fell into the freezing brine.
Blubber lips oniony the cracked ico
Blowing steam and spouting; slime.
But, alas she was no whale-cow,
3a subsided Clementina
B*P«R# men, 7/ith a dozer,
Planing bumps left by the rime,
Up they brought her, Asia’s daughter,
PIeistoscenic Clemontine. . .
Counting varvoa and sifting gravel,
Bonos end beads, ono at a time,
Dr# Ivar got her together,
Fossil flapper, Clementine.
And at Yuletide, near her moose-hide
./igwam ’neath a siv.iwy pine,
A sr.ioity figure so..ms t> go
Back and forthucross the snow,
Just the GliOoT of Clementine.
Distant cousins, Hany dozens,
Now find white man mighty fine,
They maintain her, nw restrain her,
Dusny darlings, Cl-mentino«
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An old-timor who lived here Ions named Charlie )/ /
Hawkins and who w«,3 well and favorable known, but because he
does not like the cold here is presontly living near \
Hollywood ,Calif, reports seeing Dr. and Mrs GillospieV_
onco of Konnecott and now living in Tucson. Both look '\
fine and are happily active• The noo.os and the heeds
living in Yucaipa, Calif are very well apparently and
are enjoying life except that they are o;.proceed with
a feeling of pity at thoso tirnos when they 3top picking -
- rose3 for a minute and think of us wallowing up hero
• in the snow. Charlie said that Frank Carroll wont thru^
there recently on his wav to Tox a s | 11F r enk intends to --
spond tv/o years out hero and drive ail the way to <! \
South America." t <
Charlie said ho clso saw the Jim Lc^acocks in Tucson,
very much alive in Iookg end actions.
Good, live nows is scc.rco hors now, No ono is sick^
no ono hc.s died, no ono divorced or born, no fights, c.nd h
the only fires c.ro thiso indicated by the smoko slowly. _
rising from tho chimneys r.long in tho midulo of tho dr.y ^