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I' b'en a-kindo musin', as the feller says, and I'm / About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time, / When you come to cipher on it, than the times we used to know / When we swore our first "dog-gone-it" sorto solem'-like and low!
You git my idy, do you? -- _Little_ tads, you understand -- / Jes' a wishin' thue and thue you that you on'y was a _man_. -- / Yit here I am, this minute, even forty, to a day, / And fergittin' all that's in it, wishin' jes' the other way!