For he reckoned, so he said.
That he’d saw a while ’fore bed.
—Warn’t no need of workin’ so,
Boys was earnin’ well, ye know.
But he couldn’t seem to quit.
—At it stiddy, saw and split.
Set that night there in his chair,
—Got to dreamin’, and I swear,
Snores they sounded near’s they could
Like a feller sawin’ wood.