I happened along where he stopped to bait his

hosses the other day,

—He’d given the hosses his luncheon pail and

was trying to eat their hay,

—A kind of a blame fool sort of a trick for even

a hired man,

But he tackled a different kind of a snag when

he fooled with Matilda Ann,

—When he fooled with Matilda Ann, by jinks,

he got it square in the neck,