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I have jest about decided / It 'ud keep a town-boy hoppin' / Fer to work all winter, choppin' / Fer a' old fireplace, like I did!
Lawz! them old times wuz contrairy! -- / Blame' backbone o' winter, 'peared-like / WOULDN'T break! -- and I wuz skeered-like / Clean on into FEB'UARY!
Nothin' ever made me madder / Than fer Pap to stomp in, layin' / In a' extra forestick, say'in', / "Groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder! "