Show TILE MINER I 1 crossed alhandra terry ferry tha ali fare was fifty cents I 1 was full of 0 tom and jerry to tle gilsonite mines I 1 went I 1 could not tell which road to choose V alle plodding through the sand mahlde was filled with elegant booze ooze I 1 thought I 1 owned the land so when I 1 struck bonanza they sent me under ground they to took me tor for a dandy who had hijii just arrived from town the way I 1 dug that was a caution to the cats I 1 swung my pick both left and right I 1 shed my shirt shift and hat I 1 dug from roin early morn till night and filled it in the sacks sachs I 1 felt like all that gilsonite was sticking to cyback my back my hair was matted to my crown aly shoes stuck to my feet and ev every ery time blat that I 1 sat down it glued me to my seat I 1 got some soap and water and thought id take a bath and then Is when you should have heard those other he athens laugh then like an ancient druid I 1 was filled with burning wrath for in old john Ds fluid I 1 was forced to take toy my bath I 1 thought my steps I 1 would retrace it I 1 could get my pay but they told me at the boarding place lace it was thirty days away id rather be a parasite I 1 until the crack of 0 doom than here a digging gilsonite and blacker than a coon W G REYNOLDS vernal utah |