I have jest about decided <br />It 'ud keep a _town-boy_ hoppin' <br />Fer to work all winter, choppin' <br />Fer a' old fire-place, like _I_ did! <br />Lawz! them old times wuz contrairy!-- <br />Blame backbone o' winter, 'peared-like, <br />_Wouldn't_ break!--and I wuz skeerd-like <br />Clean on into _Febuary_! <br />Nothin' ever made we madder <br />Than fer Pap to stomp in, layin' <br />On a' extra fore-stick, sayin' <br />'Groun'hog's out and seed his shadder!'<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-winters-on-the-farm/
