Ballads of a Cheechako
by
Robert W. Service

Author of "The Spell of the Yukon"






Contents



To the Man of the High North
My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming

Men of the High North
Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing;

The Ballad of the Northern Lights
One of the Down and Out--that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!

The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame,

The Ballad of Pious Pete
I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did.