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Some new "ballet," said, 'at he'd

Learnt—about "The Grapevine Swing."

And when he quit, I begun

To chune up my voice and run

Through the what's-called "scales" and "do

Sol-me-rays" I ust to know—

Then let loose old favorite one,

"Hunters o' Kentucky!" My!

Tel I thought the boy would die!

And we both laughed......

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Yes, and still

Heerd more laughin', top the hill;

Fer we'd missed Elviry's train,

And she'd lit out 'crosst the fields—

Dewdrops dancin' at her heels,—

And cut up old Smoots's lane

So's to meet us. And there in

Shadder o' the chinkypin,

With a danglin' dogwood-bough

Bloomin' 'bove her—See her now!—

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Sunshine sort o' flickerin' down

And a kind o' laughin' all

Round her new red parasol,

Try'n' to git at her!—well—like

I jumped out and showed 'em how!

Yes, and jes the place to strike

That-air mouth o' hern—as sweet

As the blossoms breshed her brow

Er sweet-williams round her feet—-

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White and blushy, too, as she

"Howdy'd" up to Jonas and