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Show The Ship That Never Came. It wns ono briKht and sunnr flay, Whrn the band did leave from here. And Hank, their loader, in full jo. Their drum iori grod cheer, But alas! poor hoys, they were mistaken, And their trials were in Tain, For the ship thnt they hud counted. But alas! she never came. Bid shs erer come? No fhe stt cume. And the day was so far speat. That tfay nil returned with empty buc-j-ies And wished they hal nsrer went. Will she ever coma? Was the anxious question. With the ladiesoa the trip; Uatil Will Price camo running1 for them. That their liirhts were all in sifiht. But no: the lig-hts that they could 8ee, Was faraway iu Provo town. And then thoy all were with anger wrought With the ship that never came. Before the band did start away They saio : "What suckers we To stay at home and not to go Tba aew ship for to see." But now the tale is only told By those that stayed away. And ery what suckers they must bo, That went the ship to see, Coatributed by Ose W ho Stavbd at Home. Tintic Miner. Observations Chap. Till. Now it came to pass in the year of our Lord 1891 on the first day of the month called May, a ship was launched on Utah Lake by the people of the tribe of Provo, and they made meri. And certain of the residents in the camp of Eureka communed one with another saying: Lo, now, let us get horses and carriages and maidens, and players upon instruments of brass, and tie merry also with them. And they did even so. But when they came to the lake lo, the ship was not there, as the captain had promised. And they made a great fire and the chief musician caused hi3 people to play lo id and they strained their vision but the s sip came not. An 1 ii '.v. is now ni.Ji! and the p; t-;" !e i ah(iu:,f d. .tit i thev sw t-jc; a ! another and werr- v, roi.ii. fur venly ! they wuiv much disappointed. And it. came, to puss at the tenth ; hour ol' the li ulii 'that they ;:io.S!' :.S ene man ami went to Gordiofc, by the I lake, and the inhabitants u-ok "them i hi and fed them and sont them on their way home rejoicing. Howbeit some walked, for their horses were weary from climbing the mountain j roads", others came l si without their carriages, which were wrecked and lost in the canons a'wng the route, and others vet again arrived even as they had departed. And it enrno to pass that the residents resi-dents of the e;unp 'aIio went not re-i re-i viled them ar.d scoffed, and they ; placed their fingers along the side of ! the no.-e and winked knowingly, and said: "Ah. ha, behold the suckers!" until the hitler felt Impelled to wipe I them off the face of the earth. ! And they retired each to his own j house to sleep, for verily they were cx-j cx-j haiitdcd in body and sick at heart, ! Thus endeth the chapter, Chief, ill'IIIJW..J.llIUiili.)lJjlllilHHU'iH' I I" Illlil'lll 'll.1r i w m |