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'O, drop that! cried Herrick, 'I can't stand that. 'No more can I, said the captain. 'I've got to play something though: got to pay the shot, my son. And he struck up 'John Brown's Body' in a fine sweet baritone: 'Dandy Jim of Carolina, came next; 'Rorin the Bold, 'Swing low, Sweet Chariot, and 'The Beautiful Land' followed.
It ran thus: "Grizlie bar gultch first janooary. "Dear mister osten, i taik up my pen, the its litil i has to do wid sitch things, to let yoo no that this coms hopin' your al wel as it leeves us barrin bunko who overait hiself last nite at super but hees al rite again, yool be glad to larn that we hav diskivered lots o goold. wan day whin i wos up the straim i thowt id tri me luk in a hole, an faix didnt i turn up a nugit o puer goold as big as my hid. i tuk it down to the hous an' didnt we spind a nite over it! its glad i was we had no likker for i do belaive weed have all got rorin drunk, as it was, sure we danced haf the nite to the myoosik of a kitle drum an owld tin kitle it was, but we didnt mind that, niver a taist, for the nugit kep up our sperits.
"O, drop that!" cried Herrick, "I can't stand that." "No more can I," said the captain. "I've got to play something though: got to pay the shot, my son." And he struck up "John Brown's Body" in a fine sweet baritone: "Dandy Jim of Carolina" came next; "Rorin the Bold," "Swing low, Sweet Chariot," and "The Beautiful Land" followed.
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