Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1925 — page 210: what you’re looking at

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192 Casey Jones By @ negro Casey looked out and saw that cow, He tried to stop, but couldn’t, somehow. He said to the boy, ‘‘We are going to bump, And while there’s time you had better jump!” ‘All right, boss,”’ the boy replied, And left the cab by the door in the side. When the wreck was cleared, poor Casey was dead, But the boy got up, half crazy, and said: “Now all you ramblers in mourning go, For the prince of ramblers is lying low; And all you maidens that love the name Put on your mourning veils again!’ That’s enough to show how varied the song is today, and how complicated its history. Every scrap of information that any one of you can send in will be appreciated. AND before it’s too late to obtain them, the “Blues” ought to be collected and preserved. Owing to the modern fad for ‘‘Blues’’ and the con- sequent production of imitations, the old and gen- uine specimens are being forgotten or becoming Adventure hopelessly confused with the new and the spurious. The Blues form a distinct type of song, curious and interesting not only for the words but for the strange wailing music. The following example is, I think, genuine. I wish I could add the music, which gives it mest of its effectiveness. It came to me through a friend who had captured it from negro singing. Send in more of them. The Train I Ride (Text of W. F., Berkeley, California.) When a woman gits de blues she lays down an’ C-I-y-s, When a man gits de blues he takes a freight train an’ r-i-d-e-s. Oh, de train ah ride, Oh, de train ah ride, Is sixteen coaches Ah mean coaches— Oh, de train I ride Is sixteen c-o-a-c-h-e-s l-o-n-g. END all contributions of old songs and all ques- tions concerning them direct to R. W. Gor- DON, 4 Conant Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. DO NOT send them to the magazine. Sigmund waited long for it. THE PURSUIT The Pilgrim finds himself. WOLVES OF THE SEA TEN MINUTES JUNE 30TH ISSUE THE FIGUREHEAD A Complete Novelette He had the soul of a jackal in the body of a lion. VENGEANCE <A Complete Novelette THE CORRUPTION OF DEACON MUNDEN A Complete Novelette He was a peace-loving man, but his ribs were ticklish. The Indian scout knew a thing or two. PARTS’ A Five-Part Story Part IV THE SETTING OF SUNRISE He essayed assaying but found something better to do. TERLEGAPHY AND THE BRONC When a horse won’t—he won’t! When the grampus dives things begin to happen. The fruit of intemperance on a banana plantation. Georges Surdez Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur Charles Victor Fischer George Bruce Marquis Hagh Pendexter Alex. McLaren Alan LeMay F. St. Mars Erle D. Hosmer Still Farther Ahead PATE three issues following the next will contain Jong stories by Georges Surdez, Thomson Burtis, Leonard H. Nason, J. Allan Dunn, George E. Holt, Everett Saunders, John Murray Reynolds, Frederick Moore and Walter J. Coburn; and short stories by S. B. H. Hurst, Nevil Henshaw, Alan Le May, Fred F. Fleischer, Rolf Bennett, Michael J. Phillips, Ralph R. Perry, Captain Mansfield, Chester T. Crowell, Alanson Skin- ner, L. Paul, Fairfax Downey, Royce Brier, Bill Adams and others; stories of aviators in the oilfields, pirates on the Spanish Main, bandits in Bosnia, French troopers in Africa, bullies in the Cajan country, British dragoons in France, cowboys .on the Western Range, traders in the South Seas, desert riders in Africa, revolutionists in Central America, lumberjacks in the North Woods, hardcase skippers on the high seas, Indian detectives on the reservation, bluejackets with the Atlantic fleet, adventurers the world around. COMmiCcboooks.Gom