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Parunts knows lots more than us, / But they don't know _all_ things, -- / 'Cause we ketch 'em, lots o' times, / Even on little small things.
One time Winnie ask' her Ma, / At the winder, sewin', / What's the wind a-doin' when / It's a-not a-_blowin_'?
Yes, an' 'Del', that very day, / When we're nearly froze out, / He ask' Uncle _where_ it goes / When the fire goes out?
Nen _I_ run to ask my Pa, / That way, somepin' funny; / But I can't say ist but "Say,"
When he turn to me an' say, / "Well, what is it, Honey? "