Old deakon Skinner, ov lower Pordunk village, waz an honest man, he wouldn’t hunt for hen’s eggs on sunday, but he waz an awful cluss man, he set a hen once, on three eggs, just tew save eggs.
PECULIAR ONES.
THE SQUARE MAN.
The square man meazzures the same each way, and haint got no wainny edges, nor shaky lumber in him.
He is free from knots and sap, and won’t warp.
He iz klear stuff, and I don’t kare what yu work him up into, he won’t swell, and he won’t shrink.
PECULIAR ONES.
He is amungst men what good kil-dried boards are amung carpenters, he won’t season-krack.
It don’t make enny difference which side ov him yu cum up to, he iz the same biggness each way, and the only way tew git at him, enny how, is tew face him.