all! You’d’a’ thrown one with a corner!”

Wal, ye’d think a dig of that sort would have

shamed him ha’f to death,

But, Land o’ Goshen, neighbor,—hain’t no mor-

tifyin’ Seth!

—Jest a waste of breath

To jab at Uncle Seth,

He’s holler where the soul should be—hain’t

got no human peth.

He’s deef to ev’ry cry of want and don’t know