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I like fun -- and I like jokes / 'Bout as well as most o' folks! -- / Like my joke, and like my fun; -- / But a joke, I'll state right here, / 'S got some p'int -- er I don't keer / Fer no joke that hain't got none. -- / I hain't got no use, I'll say, / Fer a _pore_ joke, anyway!
F'rinstunce, now, when _some_ folks gits / To relyin' on theyr wits, / Ten to one they git too smart / And _spile_ it all, right at the start! / Feller wants to jest go slow / And do his _thinkin'_ first, you know. / 'F I can't think up somepin' good, / I set still and chaw my cood! / 'F you _think_ nothin' -- jest keep on, / But don't _say_ it -- er you're gone!