Only I done it more ’n they did. I’d hev
Ter hev my chaw ez soon ez I was out
O’ bed, an’, ’cept at meals, I chawed all day
An’ part the night, an’ smoked the rest the time.
I’ve woke up many nights an’ lit a pipe.
Ez time went on I kep’ a-gittin’ wuss.
Laury, she said my mouth was like a sewer
When ’t wa’n’t a fact’ry chimbley; an’ I noticed
The things I et wa’n’t relishin’; I couldn’t
Tell pepper-grass from pie, or Woostersheer