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Updated: May 16, 2025
At a large popular meeting at Topeka the Kansas State Silver Wedding, fifteen or twenty thousand people I had been erroneously bill'd to deliver a poem. As I seem'd to be made much of, and wanted to be good-natured, I hastily pencill'd out the following little speech.
One woman prayed aloud incessantly. The third woman the menial, the worst educated and least enlightened of the three, according to the others' notion of it stubbornly refused to admit that there was not some human means of rescue. "If Bill were here," she kept on grumbling, "Bill'd find a way!"
There was a series of plays and dramatic genre characters by a gentleman bill'd as Ranger very fine, better than merely technical, full of exquisite shades, like the light touches of the violin in the hands of a master. There was the actor Anderson, who brought us Gerald Griffin's "Gysippus," and play'd it to admiration. Sefton, John Sefton, Geo. Some of the women hastily remember'd were: Mrs.
If Bill'd a been here he would have gotten enthusiastic over that lad." A Story Is Told and a Promise Made An open fire had always been tremendously fascinating to Willis Thornton, and on winter evenings, when his chores were done and supper over, he would pile the big fireplace high with maple logs, then sit and dream as the flames danced and the fire roared.
He knew every trick of the game; if there was grass to be had Bill'd get it, no matter whose run it was on. One of his games in a dry season was to let his mob get boxed with the station stock on a run where there was grass, and before Bill's men and the station-hands could cut 'em out, the travelling stock would have a good bellyful to carry them on the track. Billy was the daddy of the drovers.
There wasn't never nothing nowhere that beat Bill. Bill wouldn't ha' left us! Bill'd ha' took us out o' here, an' saved our lives. Bill snnff, snnff Bill wouldn't ha' snnff, snnff shoved us in a rat-hole and took hisself off!" She had not yet lost her English point of view. She still believed that the strong right arm of an English lover could play ducks and drakes with Destiny.
"He won't. He's all right, given he's sober. I've give him the letter." "Couldn't you give me the letter, in case?" "Law, Bill'd get mad and quit." "He'll never know." "That's so; I will." So when they paddled away, Bill had an important letter of instructions ostentatiously tucked in his outer pocket.
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