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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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LELAND THE KID a Road Agent	B
COWBOY CHARLEY Same Line of Business	C
HAPPY HUNTY Ditto in All Respects	D
SOOTYMUG a Devil	E
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Scene the Dutch Flat Stage Road at P M on a Night	F
of	G
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COWBOY CHARLEY	H
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My boss I fear she is delayed to night	F
Already it is past the hour and yet	I
My ears have reached no sound of wheels no note	J
Melodious of long luxurious oaths	K
Betokens the traditional dispute	L
Unsettled from the dawn of time between	M
The driver and off wheeler no clear chant	N
Nor carol of Wells Fargo's messenger	O
Unbosoming his soul upon the air	P
his prowess to the tender foot	Q
And how at divers times in sundry ways	R
He strewed the roadside with our carcasses	S
Clearly the stage will not come by to night	F
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LELAND THE KID	T
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I now remember that but yesterday	A
I saw three ugly looking fellows start	U
From Colfax with a gun apiece and they	A
Did seem on business of importance bent	V
Furtively casting all their eyes about	W
And covering their tracks with all the care	P
That business men do use I think perhaps	X
They were Directors of that rival line	Y
The great Pacific Mail If so they have	Z
Indubitably taken in that coach	A2
And we are overreached Three times before	B2
This thing has happened and if once again	C2
These outside operators dare to cut	D2
Our rates of profit I shall quit the road	E2
And take my money out of this concern	F2
When robbery no longer pays expense	G2
It loses then its chiefest charm for me	H
And I prefer to cheat you hear me shout	W
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HAPPY HUNTY	W
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My chief you do but echo back my thoughts	H2
This competition is the death of trade	W
'Tis plain unless we wish to go to work	I2
Some other business we must early find	W
What shall it be The field of usefulness	C
Is yearly narrowing with the advance	J2
Of wealth and population on this coast	W
There's little left that any man can do	W
Without some other fellow stepping in	K2
And doing it as well If one essay	A
To pick a pocket he is sure to feel	L2
With what disgust I need not say to you	W
Another hand inserted in the same	M2
You crack a crib at dead of night and lo	N2
As you explore the dining room for plate	W
You find in session there a graceless band	W
Stuffing their coats with spoons their skins with wine	Y
And so it goes Why even undertake	O2
To salt a mine and you will find it rich	P2
With noble specimens placed there before	B2
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LELAND THE KID	W
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And yet this line of immigration has	Q2
Advantages superior to aught	W
That elsewhere offers all these passengers	R2
If punched with care	P
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COWBOY CHARLEY	H
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Significant remark	S2
It opens up a prospect wide and fair	P
Suggesting to the thoughtful mind my mind	W
A scheme that is the boss lay out Instead	W
Of stopping passengers let's carry them	T2
Instead of crying out 'Throw up your hands '	-
Let's say 'Walk up and buy a ticket ' Why	U2
Should we unwieldy goods and bullion take	O2
Watches and all such trifles when we might	W
Far better charge their value three times o'er	O
For carrying them to market	W
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LELAND THE KID	W
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Put it there	P
Old son	V2
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HAPPY HUNTY	W
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You take the cake my dear We'll build	W
A mighty railroad through this pass and then	C2
The stage folk will come up to us and squeal	L2
And say 'It is bad medicine for both	W2
What will you give or take ' And then we'll sell	X2
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COWBOY CHARLEY	H
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Enlarge your notions little one this is	S
No petty slouching opposition scheme	Y2
To be bought off like honest men and fools	Z2
Mine eye prophetic pierces through the mists	A3
That cloud the future and I seem to see	H
A well devised and executed scheme	Y2
Of wholesale robbery within the law	B3
Made by ourselves great permanent sublime	C3
And strong to grapple with the public throat	W
Shaking the stuffing from the public purse	D3
The tears from bankrupt merchants' eyes the blood	W
From widows' famished carcasses the bread	W
From orphans' mouths	E3
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HAPPY HUNTY	W
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Hooray	A
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LELAND THE KID	W
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Hooray	A
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ALL	F3
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Hooray	A
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They tear the masks from their faces and discharging their	P
shotguns throw them into the chapparal Then they join hands	G3
dance and sing the following song	H3
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Ah blessed to measure	O
The glittering treasure	O
Ah blessed to heap up the gold	W
Untold	W
That flows in a wide	W
And deepening tide	W
Rolled rolled rolled	W
From multifold sources	I3
Converging its courses	I3
Upon our	O
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LELAND THE KID	W
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Just wait a bit my pards I thought I heard	W
A sneaking grizzly cracking the dry twigs	J3
Such an intrusion might deprive the State	W
Of all the good that we intend it Ha	K3
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Enter Sootymug He saunters carelessly in and gracefully	H
leans his back against a redwood	W
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SOOTYMUG	H3
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My boys I thought I heard	W
Some careless revelry	H
As if your minds were stirred	W
By some new devilry	H
I too am in that line Indeed the mission	V2
On which I come	L3
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HAPPY HUNTY	W
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Here's more damned competition	V2
Curtain	V2

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