MERZOURI



This is from The Besom (Univ. of Cal.-Berkeley), 6 November 1876, pg. 2,

col. 1:



"THE CHAP FROM BARKALEE"

A LEGEND OF POKER FLAT, WRITTEN BY A RESIDENT.

(...)

His clothes wuz new, o' the Frisco cut,

His shirt was new an' biled,

An' the way he jingled his coin around,

The fellers some'at riled.

So ole Bill Smith, a Merzouri man,

Wot lives way up on the Run,

He smiled out loud, an' all the crowd,

Woke up to see the fun.

(...)