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Dow's Flat That's its name	A
And I reckon that you	B
Are a stranger The same	A
Well I thought it was true	B
For thar isn't a man on the river as can't spot the place at first	C
view	B
	-
It was called after Dow	D
Which the same was an ass	E
And as to the how	D
Thet the thing kem to pass	E
Jest tie up your hoss to that buckeye and sit ye down here in the	F
grass	E
	-
You see this 'yer Dow	D
Hed the worst kind of luck	G
He slipped up somehow	D
On each thing thet he struck	G
Why ef he'd a straddled thet fence rail the derned thing'd get up	H
and buck	G
	-
He mined on the bar	I
Till he couldn't pay rates	J
He was smashed by a car	I
When he tunneled with Bates	J
And right on the top of his trouble kem his wife and five kids from	K
the States	J
	-
It was rough mighty rough	L
But the boys they stood by	M
And they brought him the stuff	L
For a house on the sly	M
And the old woman well she did washing and took on when no one	N
was nigh	M
	-
But this 'yer luck of Dow's	O
Was so powerful mean	P
That the spring near his house	Q
Dried right up on the green	P
And he sunk forty feet down for water but nary a drop to be seen	P
	-
Then the bar petered out	R
And the boys wouldn't stay	S
And the chills got about	R
And his wife fell away	S
But Dow in his well kept a peggin' in his usual ridikilous way	S
	-
One day it was June	T
And a year ago jest	U
This Dow kem at noon	T
To his work like the rest	U
With a shovel and pick on his shoulder and derringer hid in his	V
breast	U
	-
He goes to the well	W
And he stands on the brink	X
And stops for a spell	W
Jest to listen and think	X
For the sun in his eyes jest like this sir you see kinder made	Y
the cuss blink	X
	-
His two ragged gals	Z
In the gulch were at play	S
And a gownd that was Sal's	Z
Kinder flapped on a bay	S
Not much for a man to be leavin' but his all as I've heer'd the	F
folks say	S
	-
And That's a peart hoss	A2
Thet you've got ain't it now	D
What might be her cost	B2
Eh Oh Well then Dow	D
Let's see well that forty foot grave wasn't his sir that day	S
anyhow	D
	-
For a blow of his pick	C2
Sorter caved in the side	D2
And he looked and turned sick	C2
Then he trembled and cried	D2
For you see the dern cuss had struck Water Beg your parding	C2
young man there you lied	D2
	-
It was GOLD in the quartz	E2
And it ran all alike	C2
And I reckon five oughts	E2
Was the worth of that strike	C2
And that house with the coopilow's his'n which the same isn't bad	F2
for a Pike	C2
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Thet's why it's Dow's Flat	G2
And the thing of it is	E2
That he kinder got that	G2
Through sheer contrairiness	E2
For 'twas WATER the derned cuss was seekin' and his luck made him	H2
certain to miss	E2
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Thet's so Thar's your way	S
To the left of yon tree	I2
But a look h'yur say	S
Won't you come up to tea	I2
No Well then the next time you're passin' and ask after Dow	D
and thet's ME	I2

Bret Harte

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