Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns)
Russian hay-fever names and chilblains by red message. Mr. Gould would get a good deal of money out of the transaction and Sullivan would get ozone.

     I kin hump my back and take the rain,

     And I don't keer how she pours,

     I kin keep kindo' ca'm in a thunder storm,

     No matter how loud she roars;

     I haint much skeered o' the lightnin',

     Ner I haint sich awful shakes

     Afeared o'

      cyclones

     —but I don't want none

     O' yer dad-burned old

      earth

     -quakes!

     As long as my legs keeps stiddy,

     And long as my head keeps plum,

     And the buildin' stays in the front lot,

     I still kin whistle,

      some

     !

     But about the time the old clock


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