24 LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

Singing too, riloo, riloo, riloo,

Bi-too, riloo, rilay-----e,

She loved her husband dear-i-lee,

But another man twyste as wed'l.

And so on—fourteen verses. It was kind of poor, and when he was going
to start on the next verse one of them said it was the tune the old cow died
on; and another one said, ' Oh, give us a rest,' And another one told him

HE JUMPED UP IN THE
AIB.'
to take a walk. They made fun
of him till he got mad and
jumped up and begun to cuss the crowd,
and said he could lame any thief in the lot.
They was all about to make a break for him, but the biggest man there
jumped up and says—
'Set whar you are, gentlemen. Leave him to me; he's my meat.'
Then he jumped up in the air three times and cracked his heels together
every time. He flung off a buckskin coat that was all hung with fringes,
and says, * You lay thar tell the eiiawin-up's done;' and flung his hat