jick to;

He squalled and clawed and bumped around till

he was black an’ blue.

An’ teacher took her fine-toothed comb an’

raked an’ scraped his head,

—It come nigh bustin’ up the school that way

that he raised Ned!

The teacher made us all set up as stiff and

straight as sticks,

An’ then says she, all raspy-like, “Who was it