Now it’s done, though, and it’s over, ’twas a

cracker-jack, by jing.

Boggs, ye see, has been a-settin’ twenty years on

one old plank,

One end h’isted on a saw hoss, t’other on the

cistern tank.

T’other night he was a-chawin’ and he says, “I

vum-spt-ooo—

Here I am a-owin’ money—not a gol durn thing

to do!