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Something characteristic eh	A
Humph I reckon you mean by that	B
Something that happened in our way	C
Here at the crossin' of Big Pine Flat	B
Times aren't now as they used to be	D
When gold was flush and the boys were frisky	D
And a man would pull out his battery	D
For anything maybe the price of whiskey	D
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Nothing of that sort eh That's strange	E
Why I thought you might be diverted	F
Hearing how Jones of Red Rock Range	E
Drawed his hint to the unconverted	F
And saying Whar will you have it shot	G
Cherokee Bob at the last debating	H
What was the question I forgot	G
But Jones didn't like Bob's way of stating	H
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Nothing of that kind eh You mean	I
Something milder Let's see O Joe	J
Tell to the stranger that little scene	I
Out of the Babes in the Woods You know	J
Babes was the name that we gave 'em sir	K
Two lean lads in their teens and greener	K
Than even the belt of spruce and fir	K
Where they built their nest and each day grew leaner	K
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No one knew where they came from None	L
Cared to ask if they had a mother	K
Runaway schoolboys maybe One	L
Tall and dark as a spruce the other	K
Blue and gold in the eyes and hair	M
Soft and low in his speech but rarely	D
Talking with us and we didn't care	M
To get at their secret at all unfairly	D
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For they were so quiet so sad and shy	N
Content to trust each other solely	D
That somehow we'd always shut one eye	N
And never seem to observe them wholly	D
As they passed to their work 'Twas a worn out claim	O
And it paid them grub They could live without it	P
For the boys had a way of leaving game	O
In their tent and forgetting all about it	P
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Yet no one asked for their secret Dumb	Q
It lay in their big eyes' heavy hollows	R
It was understood that no one should come	Q
To their tent unawares save the bees and swallows	R
So they lived alone Until one warm night	S
I was sitting here at the tent door so sir	K
When out of the sunset's rosy light	S
Up rose the Sheriff of Mariposa	T
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I knew at once there was something wrong	U
For his hand and his voice shook just a little	V
And there isn't much you can fetch along	U
To make the sinews of Jack Hill brittle	V
Go warn the Babes he whispered hoarse	W
Tell them I'm coming to get and scurry	D
For I've got a story that's bad and worse	X
I've got a warrant G d d n it hurry	D
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Too late they had seen him cross the hill	Y
I ran to their tent and found them lying	H
Dead in each other's arms and still	Y
Clasping the drug they had taken flying	H
And there lay their secret cold and bare	M
Their life their trial the old old story	D
For the sweet blue eyes and the golden hair	M
Was a WOMAN'S shame and a WOMAN'S glory	D
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Who were they Ask no more or ask	Z
The sun that visits their grave so lightly	D
Ask of the whispering reeds or task	Z
The mourning crickets that chirrup nightly	D
All of their life but its love forgot	G
Everything tender and soft and mystic	A2
These are our Babes in the Woods you've got	G
Well human nature that's characteristic	A2

Bret Harte

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