"How solid she looks! Why, I never see the like!" "Then you ought to have seen it, Uncle Sam.

You ought to have seen it fifty times, with every body who loves you.

And who can help loving you, Uncle Sam ?" "Well, they say that I charged too much for lumber, a-cuttin' on the cross, and the backstroke work.

And it may 'a been so, when I took agin a man.

But to bring up all that, with the mill strown down, is a cowardly thing, to my thinking.