Come, bring a log o’ cleft wood,… An’ fling en on ageaen the back, An’ zee the outside door is vast,— The win’ do blow a cwoldish blast. Come, so’s! come, pull your chairs…

As I wer readen ov a stwone In Grenley church-yard all alwone… A little maid ran up, wi’ pride To zee me there, an’ push’d a-zide A bunch o’ bennets that did hide

When in the evenen the zun’s a-zin… A drowen sheaedes vrom the yollow… An’ mother, weary, 's a-zot a thin… Wi’ vwolded eaerms by the vire at… Then we do zwarm, O,

Pentridge!—oh! my heart’s a-zwelle… Vull o’ jay wi’ vo’k a-tellen Any news o’ thik wold pleaece, An’ the boughy hedges round it, An’ the river that do bound it

Vorgi’e me, Jenny, do! an’ rise Thy hangen head an’ teary eyes, An’ speak, vor I’ve a-took in lie… An’ I’ve a-done thee wrong; But I wer twold,—an’ thought 'twe…

Why ees, aunt Anne’s a little sta… But kind an’ merry, poor wold maid… If we don’t cut her heart wi’ slig… She’ll zit an’ put our things to r… Upon a hard day’s work, o’ nights;

How happy uncle us’d to be O’ zummer time, when aunt an’ he O’ Zunday evenens, eaerm in eaerm… Did walk about their tiny farm, While birds did zing an’ gnats did…

When from the child, that still is… By hand, a father’s hand is gone,— Or when a few-year’d mother dead Has left her children growing on,— When men have left their children…

Oh! there be angels evermwore, A-passen onward by the door, A-zent to teaeke our jays, or come To bring us zome—O Meaerianne. Though doors be shut, an’ bars be…

No, I’m a man, I’m vull a man, You beaet my manhood, if you can. You’ll be a man if you can teaeke All steaetes that household life d… The love-toss’d child, a-croodlen…

An’ zoo you didden come athirt, To have zome fun last night: how w… Vor we’d a-work’d wi’ all our migh… To scour the iron things up bright… An’ brush’d an’ scrubb’d the house…

The house where I wer born an’ br… Did own his woaken door, John, When vu’st he shelter’d father’s h… An’ gramfer’s long avore, John. An’ many a ramblen happy chile,

When snow-white clouds wer thin an… Avore the zummer sky o’ blue, An’ I’d noo ho but how to vind Zome play to entertain my mind; Along the water, as did wind

Zoo after supper wer a-done, They clear’d the teaebles, an’ beg… To have a little bit o’ fun, As long as they mid stop. The wold woones took their pipes t…