My zwimmèn cork, a-zunk or shook
By minnows nibblèn at my hook,
A-thinkèn I should catch a breäce
O' perch, or at the leäst some deäce,
A-zwimmèn down vrom gramfer's.
Then ten good deäries wer a-ved
Along that water's windèn bed,
An' in the lewth o' hills an' wood
A half a score farm-housen stood:
But now,—count all o'm how you would,