Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

by Holman Day

Now Marshy snarls at mother and mother sends

it back,

And all the time, from sun to sun, it’s clack and

clack and clack!

Don’t give up yer propputy, hang on till death,

I say;

It’s time when you are done with it to give your

all away.

Oh, how the devil snickers round when some

old codger drools