Since that time he has been active, with John G.
Nicolay, in the preparation and production of the full Memoir of Abraham
Lincoln, now completed, that will take high rank among the records of a
war which, in its issues, touched the future of the world, perhaps, more
nearly than any war since Waterloo, not even excepting the great struggle
which ended at Sedan.
That is the life of a man, here is its music.
H. M.
THE PIKE COUNTY BALLADS.
JIM BLUDSO, OF THE "PRAIRIE BELLE."
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives,
Becase he don't live, you see;
Leastways, he's got out of the habit
Of livin' like you and me.
Whar have you been for the last three year
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?
He weren't no saint,--them engineers
Is all pretty much alike, -
One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill,
And another one here, in Pike;
A keerless man in his talk was Jim,
And an awkward hand in a row,
But he never flunked, and he never lied, -
I reckon he never knowed how.
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