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I was takin' leave of Nancy, Standin' out there in the night.

Nancy MacIntyre

A Tale of the Prairies

LESTER SHEPARD PARKER



1910

To My Wee Daughter
RACHEL ELLEN PARKER
this little story is
affectionately inscribed

CONTENTS

Billy's Revery


The Quarrel


The Disappointment


The Decision


The Search


The Return


Nancy's Story


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I was takin' leave of Nancy
Standin out there in the night
"


"Then I dragged him on the prairie
Through a Turk's Head cactus bed
"


"I am standing by her dug-out,
Open stands the sagging door
"


"Bringing back a hat of water,
Through the dim light and the rain
"


"Loaded up their prairie schooner,
And vamoosed the ranch, fore light
"


"He was startled by a stranger's
Sudden presence and 'Hello!'
"


"Faithful Simon, weak andstarving,
Groaned and fell beneath his pack
"


"Resting calm in fancied safety
Sat the elder MacIntyre
"


"Once again the twisted branches
Of the lone and friendly tree
"


"Fiercer with each flying moment
Drove the scorching blasts of death
"


"Standing there, a picturedgoddess
Sketched against a lowering storm
"


"But, instead, I shot, to scare him,
All the buttons off his coat
"

BILLY'S REVERY

1

No use talking, it's perplexing,

Everything don't look the same;

Never had these curious feelin's

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