Explore "Over the Fence" by C.J. Dennis on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
'TAINT my idea uv argument to call a man a fool, / An' I ain't lookin' round for bricks to 'eave at ole man Poole; / But when 'e gets disputin' 'e's inclined to lose 'is 'ead. / It ain't so much 'is choice uv words as 'ow the words is said.
'E's sich a coot for takin' sides, as I sez to Doreen. / Sez she, "Ow can 'e, by 'imself ? " Wotever that may mean. / My wife sez little things sometimes that nearly git me riled. / I knoo she meant more than she said be that soft way she smiled.