He scored his stiffs[126] on the heft of his knife—

Forty I’ve heern ’em say;

It might have been more—Bob kept his accounts

In a loosish sorter way.

Bob warn’t a angel ter look at,

And the Bible it warn’t his book;

He swore the most oaths that war swor’d in the camp,

Or blarmedly I am mistook;

But he warn’t a outen-out bad ’un,

And he’d got a heart you could touch;