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Rh But it's all done now, an' I wigh't I knew

Where's my chum, go>od chum Bub Karaboo.

But somethin' took hold uv Bub one day,

He'd caught somethin' sickly, so people said,

On the gate uv his house just over the way,

Wus hung a flag all shinin' an' red.

Say, what was the trouble an' why'd this they do,

For I couldn't see good chum Bub Karaboo?

One day a lot uv carriages to Bub's house went,

An' soon filed away kinder solem an' slow.

In the lead uv the line, as on sorrow bent,

Four blacks pulled a carriage; and there were people with heads bowed low.

I didn't see Bub when they passed, did you?

So where was he anyway, Bub Karaboo?

They lined to the graveyard on the hill,

Where they lingered fer an hour or two,

Then the blacks came back with a hum an' a buzz,

I thought they was bringin' back Bub Karaboo.

But they wasn't. So tell me, what did they do

With my chum, good chum Bub Karaboo?

—Dennis H. Stovall.

The year which we celebrate marks a fruitful period for the Pacific Northwest; 1848 was the turning point in our history. Alternate hopes and