Accordin’ to J. B.,

Thet’s fit for you an’ me!”

Blood ain’t so cool as ink, John:

It’s likely you’d ha’ wrote,

An’ stopped a spell to think, John,

Arter they’d cut your throat?

Ole Uncle S. sez he, “I guess

He’d skurce ha’ stopped,” sez he,

“To mind his p-s an’ q-s, ef thet weasan’

Hed b’longed to ole J. B.,