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If it is cold, they shiver round 'nd call the weather horrid;
If it is warm, they .sweat and fret about the weather torrid;
If it is summer, then they scow) ’nd long for winter cool ;
FNd if it’s winter, they will yearn for summer ez a rooh

If they have money, ev'ry one is arter it, they think ;
’ N"d bound somehow til beat ’em 'nd appropriate their chink ;
If they are poor, iliey think they arc the worst abused of all
The creeturs of Cod’s providcnce upon this rollin' ball.

'Nd if they have a family, they're always savtin sure
No other man could such a wife or child ez theirs endure ;
’ Nd if they're single, they bewail their sad 'nd lonely lot,
’ Xd say when plums are passed around they ahers are forgot,

’ Nd so it goes, the goodness knows if any fun they git
In fin din’ fault with Providence they need it eveiy bit;
But how uoder the canopy they manage tu git round
On the wust side of everything beats anything I’ve found.

The sun shines jest ez bright on 'em ez ft does on you 'nd me,
sNd none of us kin dodge the storms of life ez I kin see;
But wThy some folks ’d rati ter count the storms than pleasant days
Is somethin' I don’t understand and (ills me with amaze.

The "birds sing no less sweetly 'cause a sunny day has passed ;
The apple-trees don't cease tu bloom when they no shadder cast;
The tattle on a thousand hills don't lose their appetite
’ Nd beller round because thev ain't in clover day 'nd ni^ht.
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If bees can’t find a clover patch they pi.it up with buckwheat;
They’re jest ez happy, 'nd 1 guess th- honey's jest e* sweet.
There ain’t a erectin' livin’. 'cept the human, e’ I know,
That loves tu fret ’n1 grumble round; now, neighbor, ain't it so ?
W il l ia m E d w a r d P e n n e y.