Adventure Magazine Cover — page 176: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE ' MONUMENT H. N THE heart of the Black Hills Forest, Near the top of the big divide, By a worn-out trail is a lonely grave On a somber mountain-side, Where a one-eyed man was murdered And a bob-tailed burro died. It was during the golden fever He descended upon the camp With his bob-tailed donk and a pack of junk ' And the general air of a tramp, | ; - With his tattered rags and his grizzly hair And a limp and an absent lamp. Well, we snickered to see him packin’ And we watched him go with a grin, And we plumb forgot in a day or two Till we see him staggerin’ in After seven weeks with a load of dirt That would waller a saint in sin. Well, he caches his dust and beats it. For the rest of the pile, it’s said; But he don’t come back, so we go to look, And we find him cold and dead, With a couple o’ holes through the gizzard And the top blowed offen his head. 175 10 eonnichooks, conn