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Noon-time and June-time, down around the river! / Have to furse with 'Lizey Ann -- but lawzy! I fergive her! / Drives me off the place, and says 'at all 'at she's a-wishin', / Land o' gracious! time'll come I'll git enough o' fishin'! / Little Dave, a-choppin' wood, never 'pears to notice; / Don't know where she's hid his hat, er keerin' where his coat is, -- / Specalatin', more 'n like, he haint a-goin' to mind me, / And guessin' where, say twelve o'clock, a feller'd likely find me.
Noon-time and June-time, down around the river! / Clean out o' sight o' home, and skulkin' under kivver / Of the sycamores, jack-oaks, and swamp-ash and ellum -- / Idies all so jumbled up, you kin hardly tell 'em! -- / _Tired_, you know, but _lovin'_ it, and smilin' jest to think 'at / Any sweeter tiredness you'd fairly want to _drink_ it. / Tired o' fishin' -- tired o' fun -- line out slack and slacker -- / All you want in all the world's a little more tobacker!