OLD SPOOKSES' PASS
MALCOLM'S KATIE, AND OTHER POEMS,

BY

ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD.

AUTHOR OF
A LITTLE BACCHANTE, OR SOME BLACK SHEEP, ETC., ETC., ETC.



TO JOHN IRWIN CRAWFORD, ESQ., M. D., R. N.
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY HIS NIECE ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD.




OLD SPOOKSES' PASS.


I.

We'd camp'd that night on Yaller Bull Flat--
Thar was Possum Billy, an' Tom, an' me.
Right smart at throwin' a lariat
Was them two fellers, as ever I see;
An' for ridin' a broncho, or argyin' squar
With the devil roll'd up in the hide of a mule,