WHAT MISTAH TROUBLE DID
Ol’ Mistah Trouble, he come aroun’ one day
An’ say, “I gwinter git you, so you better run away
I likes to see you hustle. Dat’s de way I has my fun.
I knows I kin ketch up to you, no matter how you run!”
I says, “Mistah Trouble, you has been a-chasing me
Ever since I kin remember, an’ I’se tired as I kin be.
So I’se gwinter stop right yere, an’ turn aroun’ a-facin’ you,
An’ lick you if I kin, an’ fin’ out jest what you kin do.”
Ol’ Mistah Trouble, he looked mightily ashamed;
He acted like a buckin’-hoss dat’s suddenly been tamed;
An’ den he turned an’ travelled off, a-hollerin’, “Good day;
I ain’t got time to fool around wif folks dat acts dat way.”
Washington Star.