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Pap had one old-fashioned sayin' / That I'll never quite fergit -- / And they's seven growed-up childern / Of us rickollects it yit! -- / Settin' round the dinner-table, / Talkin' 'bout our friends, perhaps, / Er abusin' of our neghbors, / I kin hear them words o' Pap's -- / "Shet up, and eat yer vittels! "
Pap he'd never argy with us, / Ner cut any subject short / Whilse we all kep' clear o' gossip, / And wuz actin' as we ort: / But ef we'd git out o' order -- / Like sometimes a fambly is, -- / Faultin' folks, er one another, / Then we'd hear that voice o' his -- / "Shet up, and eat yer vittels! "