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Las' July -- and, I persume, / 'Bout as hot / As the old Gran'-Jury room / Whare they sot! -- / Fight 'twixt Mike and Dock McGreff. / 'Pears to me jest like as ef / I'd a-dremp' the whole blame thing -- / Allus ha'nts me roun' the gizzard / When they's nightmares on the wing / And a feller's blood's jes' friz! / Seed the row from A to Izzard -- / 'Cause I wuz a-standin' as clos't to 'em / As me and you is!
Tell you the way it wuz -- / And I don't _want_ to see, / Like _some_ fellers does, / When they's goern to be / Any kind o' fuss -- / On'y makes a rumpus wuss / Fer to _interfere_ / When theyr dander's riz -- / Might as lif to _cheer_! / But I wuz a-standin' as clos't to 'em / As me and you is!