 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...  Public Opinion - Page 2471898Full view - About this book
 | William Rose Benét - American poetry - 1925 - 558 pages
...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....Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. * This poem is used by permission... | |
 | William Rose Benét - American poetry - 1925 - 576 pages
...hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how. And ihis was all the religion he had, — To treat his engine...Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. * This poem is used by permission... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...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...treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozzle agin the... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 560 pages
...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....be passed on the river; To mind the pilot's bell; 1 By permission of, and by special arrangement with Houghton MiHiin Company, the authorized publishers.... | |
 | Rolla Milton Tryon, Charles Ramsdell Lingley - United States - 1927 - 784 pages
...ashore, — these are the points in John Hay's famous little poem "Jim Bludso." It repays reading : And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand...nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. Then began the rivalry between the flatboat and the steamboat. The steamboat cost a great deal and... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...keerless man in his talk . . . / And an awkward man in a row." In lines 2 124 his "religion" is outlined: "And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire — / A thousand times he swore, / He'd hold her nozzle again the bank / Till the last soul got ashore." The Prairie Belle does catch fire, and Bludso is as... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...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....religion he had, — To treat his engine well; Never he passed on the river; To mind the pilot's hell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 598 pages
...Mississippi River. Furthermore, he is "a keerless man in his talk," and the only kind of religion he has is To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river...nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. Jim's true character is shown, however, the night that the Prairie Belle bursts into flames and he... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...one here in Pike. A careless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward man in a rowBut he never pinked, and he never lied; I reckon he never knowed how. And...pilot's bell, And if ever the "Prairie Belle" took fire, And a thousand times he swore He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...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. "...nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore." The sub-feeling clearly is that men who live a life of something like license, if there be a law within... | |
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