Front:
THE DEVIL'S CLAW.
The Devil, in an Earthward sally, came to the Mesilla Valley
Looked it over, liked i well - better than his native Hell
Sent for wife and fantin
Thus the Valley-
Devils all about the Pace, keeping out the Homan Race.
Food there was, butot enough to kp alive a tribe so tough
And so the Devils 'ganNe die - a heby fact for you and I.
Their bodies layupp the Eart nd quickly dried.-By water's dearth
They very soon wre dessied
One part the sun and wind deied - the claw,-it simply dried and dried
And hardened, somewhat like coment - upon your flesh'twill make a dent.
Then Humans came, at first quite slowly; some were gallant, others lowly;
Some possessed required resistce to eke out a bare existence.
Such a scattered podulation'mattered little to the Nation,
By and by good Úncle Sam bui n irrigation dam:
Water, precious, filled the ditchesbrnging to the earth great riches.
Thus the Valley came to eser, adyou will agree, it ought'er.
This has been the simple story -noto Yong and not too gory-
Of how, in this small Paradise, one C
The Devil's Claw-it grows not tall notately. Thankyou. That is all.
and here branched out his famnily tree.
sad related- came to be ill-ppulated-
rned to dust, which dissipated.
Pind,-perhaps mayprize-
Don Alfredo.
DEVIL'S CLAW: The seed pod ofa plant native to desert land in the southwestern United states.
Capyright 1944 AIdrea M. Perhima.
Back:
THIS CARD IS A SOUVENIR OF
CASA DE LAS CRUCES
On U. S. Hiway No. 70 (North)
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Home of the Billy-the-Kid Museum
“The most interesting establishment in the
Mesilla Valley."
