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