Volume 10 — A SHINING MARK
Reading edition
BY IRONQUILL
A man came here from Idaho, With lots of mining stock. He brought along as specimens A lot of mining rock. The stock was worth a cent a pound If stacked up in a pile. The rock was worth a dollar and A half per cubic mile. We planted him at eventide, 'Mid shadows dim and dark; We fixed him up an epitaph,— "Death loves a mining shark."