But I gotta tell ye suthin’ ’t ’appened then;

Ever b’en

Whar a mockin’-bird was tunin’ up ’is fiddle?

It’s a riddle

How ’e symfonizes ev’ry sort o’ noise

An’ employs

A composer’s subterfujes (ez ye’ve noted)

Single throated.

Wal, I seen one settin’ up thar (knowed ’twas him)

On a limb