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Page 79 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 18 - And so that blamed cow-critter was always a-comin' up ; And so that heaven we arg'ed no nearer to us got,^ But it gave us a taste of somethjn' a thousand times as hot. And so the thing kept workin', and all the self-same way ; Always somethin...
Page 17 - Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout, For things at home are cross-ways, and Betsey and I are out— We who have worked together so long as man and wife, Must pull in single harness the rest of our nat'ral life.
Page 53 - em, which some good folks condemn, 35 But every couple's child'rn's a heap the best to them. Strange how much we think of our blessed little ones! — I'd have died for my daughters, I'd have died for my sons; And God he made that rule of love; but when we're old and gray, I've noticed it sometimes somehow fails to work the other way. 4° Strange, another thing: when our boys an' girls was grown, And when, exceptin' Charley, they'd left us there alone; When John he nearer an...
Page 81 - An' prayed my duty clear; But Death will stop my voice, I know, For he is on my track; And some day I to church will go, And never more come back; And when the folks gets up to sing — Whene'er that time shall be — I do not want no patent thing A-squealin
Page 47 - s precious things in this old house we never can take away. Here the old house will stand, but not as it stood before : Winds will whistle through it, and rains will flood the floor; And over the hearth, once blazing, the snow-drifts oft will pile, And the old thing will seem to be a-mournin
Page 19 - There is a little hard money that's drawin' tol'rable pay: A couple of hundred dollars laid by for a rainy day; Safe in the hands of good men, and easy to get at; Put in another clause there, and give her half of that. Yes, I see you smile, sir, at my givin...
Page 25 - Since then I don't deny but there's been a word or two ; But we've got our eyes wide open, and know just what to do ; When one speaks cross the other just meets it with a laugh, And the first one's ready to give up considerable more thau half.
Page 25 - I told her we'd bury the hatcbet alongside of the cow ; And we struck an agreement never to have another row. And I told her in the future I wouldn't speak cross or rash If half the crockery in the house was broken all to smash; And she said, in regards to heaven, we'd try and learn its worth By startin' a branch establishment and runnin' it here on earth. And so we sat a-talkin...
Page 71 - My business on the jury's done — the quibblin' all is through — I've watched the lawyers, right and left, and give my verdict true ; I stuck so long unto my chair, I thought I would grow in ; And if I do not know myself, they'll get me there ag'in. But now the court's adjourned for good, and I have got my pay ; I'm loose ut last, and thank the Lord, I'm goin