tooken down
With the wust case of pneumony that we ever
knowed in town.
An’ he dropped away in no time; it was awful
kind of rough,
An’ we had our fust misgivin’s’bout the skill
of Old Doc Pluff.
Reckoned that ’ere scrape would down him an’
he’d stick to hens an’ cows,
But he’d got to be ambitious, an’ he tackled