That the critters are munchin’ their fodder and

bedded and comf’table too.

These biskits are light as a feather, but, boy,

they’d be heavier’n lead

If I thought that my hosses was shiv’rin’, if I

thought that my cattle warn’t fed.

There’s men in the neighborhood ’round me who

pray som’w’at louder than me,

They wear better clothes, sir, on Sunday—chip

in for the heathen Chinee,