down kersouse.
His head, sah, when she busted, it was jest
abreast the eaves;
And he nipped, sah, quicker’n lightnin’, and
he gripped there with his teeth,
And he never dropped the shingles, but he hung
to both the sheaves,
Though the solid ground was suttinly more’n
thirty feet beneath.
He held there and he kicked there and he