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Jest Frank Reed's his _real_ name-though / Boys all calls him "Ringworm Frank," / 'Cause he allus _runs round_ so. - / No man can't tell where to bank / _Frank_'ll be, / Next you see / Er _hear_ of him! -Drat his melts! - / That man's allus _somers else_!
We're old pards. -But Frank he jest / _Can't_ stay still! -Wuz _prosper'n'_ here, / But lit out on furder West / Somers on a ranch, last year: / Never heard / Nary a word / _How_ he liked it, tel to-day, / Got this card, reads thisaway: -
"Dad-burn climate out here makes / Me homesick all Winter long, / And when Springtime _comes_, it takes / Two pee-wees to sing one song,- / One sings ‘_pee_,' / And the other one ‘_wee! _' / Stay right where you air, old pard,- / Wisht _I_ wuz this postal card! "