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Von oft der poys was “ Yawcob/’
Und “ Hans ” dor oder's name:
But den it made no tiffercnt:
Ve both got called der same.

Vel! ] von off us got lead—■
Yaw. Mvnhcer, dot ish so !
7 j *
Rut vedder Hans or Yaw cob,
Mine modei' she don't know.

Und so 1 am in drouples :
T gan’t kit droo mine lied
Vedder I'm Hans vot’s iifing,
Or Ytuvcob vot is toad !
C h a r les F . A dam s.

MRS. SMART LEARNS HOW TO SKATE.
D ON'T you think skating- is dreadful good exercise? I do; and
I've been trying of it lately, no that I have as good a knowl­
edge of how it operates as anybody else.
Joshua said I was rather old to go into such childish bizness: Kit
1 don't see no airthiy reason why an old married woman shouldn't
enjoy herself if she can. Goodness knows, most of us has trouble
enough to put up with— if we have a husband and children and hens
and pigs and things. And if we can git any enjoyment out of life, I
say we'd orter, I calkulate to, myself; and I'd like to see anybody
henderme! It’ll take more’n Joshua Smart t lie never growed jig
enuflH, No, sir! not by a long chalk !
AH the folks round about here has gone into skating, There hain’t
nobody but what’s had a spell at it Even old Grandtnarm Smith,
that’s gone with two canes this dozen years— she's tried it, and fell
down, and smashed her specs, and barked her nose all to flinchers:
and old Deacon Sharp, that's been blind ever since Wiggin’s barn was
burnt, he's got to be quite a powerful skater. Only you have to clear
the track when you sec him coming, ’cause he don't turn out for no­