The quickest way ter git us thar ’s ter vote
The way I’m goin’ ter.”
XIV
Bill’s “Risin’”
One mornin’ Bill he took ’is chair at table,
’N’ I seen ’is right hand almos’ kivered
With bandages, an’ ’e wan’t scassly able
Ter eat—jes’ set an’ kind o’ shivered.
I didn’t say en’thing till I hed et
’Mos’ threw my breakfas’; then I said,
“I reckin, Bill, yew better quit an’ let