The Truth About Copper Hill

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The Truth About Copper Hill</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> <I><B>Talk about extensive workin's, " said the Man from Copper Hill;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"Why, you fellers don't know nothin', never have, an' never will.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"You kin shoot your tales of Leadville, of Australia and the Rand,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But </B></I><I><B>them</B></I><I><B> mines just scratched the surface--they was wormholes, understand?</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"In the country that I come from, in my little minin' town,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We just called 'em placer workin's till we'd burrowed two miles down;</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Caes run a mile a minute, droppin' downwatd with a jerk,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But it took us half an hour to be lowered to our work.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Oncet I'm kinda separated from the others on my shift</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' I finds I'm lost completely in an old, abandoned drift.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Still I doesn't get excited--I kin feel my way about</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Though I haven't got no matches an' my candle's flickered out.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Seven days I grope in darkness, seven days in deepest gloom,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Till I kinda gets to thinkin' that the mine'll be my tomb.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"But at last I sees the glimmer of a distamt steady light</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An' I pants an' stumbles to'rds it as it keeps on shinin' bright--</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Shinin' bright an' glowin' redder till it gets to be a glare</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>An'--I sees a bunch of devils that is stirrin' brimstone there!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Boys I'm tellin' you I beat it--far away from such a spot,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>All my weariness an' hunger an' my faintness is forgot.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Through the dark I run regardless, scared them devil imps would find me,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Runnin' blind but always runnin', thinkin' fiends is just behind me.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Never stoppin', never pausin', for a month or more I run</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Till I feels the race is finished, till I knows I'm almost done.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Then I bumps into a ladder. Weak an' feeble though I be,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Still I manages to climb itfor a day or two or three,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>"Fearin' there's a fiend behind me with a red-hot iron fork,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Till I finds that I have landed--in the subways of New York!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Talk about extensive workin's, talk of holes </B></I><I><B>you </B></I><I><B>think are big,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In the country that</B></I><I><B> I </B></I><I><B>come from, when we dig a mine we </B></I><I><B>dig</B></I><I><B>!"</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="popular_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Magazine"><U><I>The Popular Magazine </I></U></A><I>- </I><I>January 7, 1929</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>