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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 ...the noise, the whole street through, Wuz lost on me!--I only heard a whipperwill er two, It 'peared-like, kind o' callin' 'crost the darkness and the dew, Them nights afore my dancin'-days wuz over. T 'uz Chused'y-night at Wetherell's, er We'n'sd'y-night at Strawn's, Er Fourth-o'-July-night at uther Tomps's house er John's!--With old Lew Church from Sugar Crick, with that old fiddle he Had sawed clean through the Army, from Atlanty to the sea--And yit he'd fetched her home ag'in, so's he could play fer me Onc't more afore my dancin'-days wuz overl The woods 'at's all be'n cut away wuz growin' same as then; The youngsters all wuz boys ag'in 'at's now all oldish men; And all the girls 'at then wuz girls--I saw 'em, one and all, As plain as then--the middle-sized, the short-and-fat, and tall--And 'peared-like, I danced "Tucker" fer 'em up and down the wall Jes' like afore my dancin'-days wuz over! 151 "Home Ag'in" I'M a-feelin' ruther sad, Fer a father proud and glad As / am--my only child Home, and all so rickonciled! Feel so strange-like, and don't know What the mischief ails me so! 'Stid o' bad, I ort to be Feclin' good pertickerly--Yes, and extry thankful, too, 'Cause my nearest kith and kin, My Elviry's schoolin' 's through, And I' got her home ag'in--Home ag'in with me! Same as ef her mother'd been Livin', I have done my best By the girl, and watchfulest; Nussed her--keerful' as I could--From a baby, day and night,--Drawin' on the neighberhood And the women-folks as light As needsessity 'ud 'low--'Cept in "teethin'," onc't, and fight Through black-measles. Don't know now How we ever saved the child! Doc he'd give her up, and said, As I stood there by the bed Sort o' foolin' with her hair On the hot, wet pillar there, "W...