While I kep’ nudgin’ Uncle Pease and bellered,

’Durn ye, whoa!’

“I larfed, suh, like a lunytick, I larfed and

thought ’twas fun

To look around and see old Clark a-hangin’ to

his gun,-

Eor he was scart plum nigh to death, and so was

Uncle Pease,

Who doubled clus’ above that pail he clenched

between his knees.