I say, old man, now please go’way,
I’ve changed my mind, and I guess I’ll stay.”
Elkanah B. Atkinson then says he:
“This changin’ minds is a bad idee;
I’ve set in that office there all night
So’s I could git ye up all right.
An’ breakfus’ is on, an’ the coffee’s hot;
Now, friend, ye can go on that train or not,
But I tell ye now, right off- the reel,
Ye’re goin’ to git up and eat that meal.”