A trivial parallel

[Wilson Gray]

James Whitcomb Riley
Afterwhiles

The idy! Wadin round here over shoe-mouth deep in woe,
When they's a graded 'pike o' joy and sunshine _don't you know!_


The Counts
Hot Tamales

If you ever go down to Mexico,
You better take some neckbones and some cornbread, _don't you know!

-Wilson


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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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