Versos English Bret Harte Yuba Bill

English poem

Yuba Bill

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Listen in the reader

Thar woz a snipe--like you, a fancy tourist-- Kem to that ranch ez if to make a stay, Ran off the gal, and ruined jist the purist Critter that lived--

STRANGER (quietly)

You're a liar, driver!

YUBA BILL (reaching for his revolver).

Eh! Here take my lines, somebody--