And hollered stiddy, ‘Blood and brain, I’m

dead; oh, blood and brain!’

Old Uncle Clark was on his back, a-listening to

the fuss,

And wonderin’ whuther that old gun had

murdered him or us.

“Now that’s the way the thing come off. Best

is,” concluded Bart,

“They warn’t nobody hurt a mite: three-fifty

fixed the cart.”