An’ so I reckoned, parson, you might break the news to her—

Bill’s in the Legislatur, but he doesn’t say what fur.

“’SPACIALLY JIM.”

I wus mighty good-lookin’ when I was young,

Peert an’ black-eyed an’ slim,

With fellers a courtin’ me Sunday nights,

’Spacially Jim.

The likeliest one of ’em all was he,