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They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town / Which I wisht in my hart wasent so. / You take _city_ people, jest square up and down, / And they're mighty good people to know: / And whare's better people a-livin', to-day, / Than us in the _country_? -- Yit good / As both of us is, we're divorsed, you might say, / And won't compermise when we could!
Now as nigh into town fer yer Pap, ef you please, / Is the what's called the sooburbs. -- Fer thare / You'll at least ketch a whiff of the breeze and a sniff / Of the breth of wild-flowrs ev'rywhare. / They's room fer the childern to play, and grow, too -- / And to roll in the grass, er to climb / Up a tree and rob nests, like they _ortent_ to do, / But they'll do _any_how ev'ry time!