nk of Susie
When I'm wakin' or I'm sleep.
I'm wearin' Cupid's hobbles,
An' I'm tied to Love's stake-pin,
And when my heart was branded
The irons sunk deep in.

Chorus:--

I take my saddle, Sundays,--
The one with inlaid flaps,--
And don my new sombrero
And my white angora chaps;
Then I take a bronc for Susie
And she leaves her pots and pans
And we figure out our future
And talk o'er our homestead plans.

Chorus:--
_Anonymous._

A BORDER AFFAIR

SPANISH is the lovin' tongue,
Soft as music, light as spray;
'Twas a girl I learnt it from
Livin' down Sonora way.
I don't look much like a lover,
Yet I say her love-words over
Often, when I'm all alone--
"_Mi amor, mi corazon._"

Nights when she knew where I'd ride
She would listen for my spurs,
Throw the big door open wide,
Raise them laughin' eyes of hers,
And my heart would nigh stop beatin'
When I'd hear her tender greetin'
Whispered soft for me alone--
"_Mi amor! mi corazon!_"

Moonlight in the patio,
Old Senora noddin' near,
Me and Juana talkin' low
So the "madre" couldn't hear--
How those hours would go a-flyin',
And too soon I'd hear her sighin',
In her little sorry-tone--
"_Adios, mi corazon._"

But one time I had to fly
For a foolish gamblin' fight,
And we said a swift good-bye
On that black, unlucky night.
When I'd loosed her arms from clingin',
With her words the hoofs kept ringin',
As I galloped north alone--
"_Adios, mi corazon._"

Never seen her since that night;
I kaint cross the Line, you know.
She was Mex. and I was white;
Like as not it's better so.
Yet I've always sort of missed her
Since that last, wild night I kissed her,
Left her heart and lost my own--
"_Adios, mi corazon._"
_Charles B. Clark, Jr._

SNAGTOOTH SAL

I WAS young and happy and my heart was light and gay,
Singin', always singin' through the sunny summer day;
Happy as a lizard in the wavin' chaparral,
Walkin' down through Laramie with Snagtooth Sal.

Sal, Sal,
My heart is broke today--
Broke in two forever when they laid you in the clay;
I would give creation to be walkin' with my gal--