 Through the hot black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, And Bludso's ghost went up...  Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays - Page 236by Charles Kingsley - 1902 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...burnt a hole in the night ; " and again in the lines, — " Through the hot black breath of the bumin' boat. Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness. And knowed he would keep his word." It was a great stroke of modern realism to make it Jim Bludso's " cussedness,"... | |
 | John Milton Hay - 1871 - 196 pages
...her nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot's ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell,... | |
 | John Hay - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 188 pages
...nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot 's ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure 's you 're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...her nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot 's ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the bumin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his enssednees, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure 's you 're born, they all got off Afore the... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 706 pages
...Jim Bludsoe of the Prairie Bell : " Through the hot-black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludsoe's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 702 pages
...Jim Bludsoe of the Prairie Bell : " Through the hot-black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludsoe's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 700 pages
...Jim Bludsoe of the Prairie Bell : " Through, the hot-black breath of the biirnin' boat Jim Bludsoe' s voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...bank till every soul save he got safe on shore : — Through the hot black breath of the burning Ijoat Jim Bludso's voice was heard ; And they all had trust...they all got off Afore the smoke-stacks fell, — And Bhidso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the I'rairie Belle He wern't no saint — but at judgment... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...would, her bow against the bank till every soul save he got safe on shore : — " Through the hot black breath of the burning boat Jim Bludso's voice was...keep his word. And sure's you're born, they all got oft Afore the smokestacks fell, — And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.... | |
 | Eleanora Louisa Hervey - 1877 - 338 pages
...hearty, if rough, words, the fate of the engineer who acted so heroically : " ' Through the hot black breath of the burning boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard ; And they all had trust in his hardihood And knew he would keep his word. And sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smoke-stacks... | |
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