The next day we broke camp and was gone from that place, and I took away with me the half of a ring me and Martha had chopped in two.

We kept on going, and by the time punkins and county fairs was getting ripe we was into the upper left-hand corner of Ohio.

And there Looey left us.
One day Doctor Kirby and me was walking along the main street of a little town and we seen a bang-up funeral percession coming.

It must of been one of the Grand Army of the Republicans, fur they was some of the old soldiers in buggies riding along behind, and a big string of people follering in more buggies and some on foot.

Everybody was looking mighty sollum.