FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP

Wal, things they was deader’n old Billy-be-darn,

The boss was pernickity, cook wouldn’t yam;

For we’d heard ev’ry story old Beans had to spin,

And we hadn’t no longin’s to hear ’em agin;

Old Pitts, the head chopper, we’d pumped him

out, too,

—And he swow’d that he’d sung ev’ry song