Catching a note from me.

And down through the woods to the swimming-hole—

Where the big, white, hollow, old sycamore grows,—

And we never cared when the water was cold.

And always "clucked" the boy that told

On the fellow that tied the clothes.—

When life went so like a dreamy rhyme

That it seems to me now that then

The world was having a jollier time