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Well, yes, suh, dat am a comical name / It are so, an' for a fac' -- / But I knowed one, down in Ferginyer, / Could 'a' toted dat on its back.
"What was it? " I 'm gwine to tell you -- / 'T was mons'us long ago: / 'T was, "Ashcake," suh; an' all on us / Use' ter call 'im jes', "Ashcake," so.