+--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _Items._ | _VAPOR._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| G || @ Warm hotness | The man who gits hiz edukashun | | 2| M || @ now the frog @ | from the daily papers, | | 3| T || sweats (@) thunder | if he happens to miss one, haz | | 4| W || @ @ and litening | lost all he iz a going to kno for | | 5| T || @ Amos Jones @ @ | the next 24 hours. | | 6| F || @ sloped @ 1839 | | | 7| S || south wind @ @ | | | 8| G ||Amos waz a wood-sawyer | * * * * * | | 9| M || @ more hot | | |10| T || @ @ now borrow | | |11| W || @ umbrellers @ @ | The hardest man to convince | |12| T || thunder @ showers | in an argument iz the one who | |13| F || let us hav @ @ | alwuss sez "_yes_" to everything | |14| S || peace @ inkreasing | yu say. | |15| G || hotness @ now pik | | |16| M || @ @ green corn @ | | |17| T || Wind southly @ @ | * * * * * | |18| W || @ @ virtew iz its | | |19| T || @ own reward @ very | | |20| F || dusty @ now inhale | I would rather a boy ov mine | |21| S || juleps @ @ hot grows | would be haff full ov deviltry, | |22| G || Mary Walker @ @ | than chuck full gravity,--but i | |23| M || @ born (!) 1840 | haint got enny boy yu know. | |24| T || kloudy @ Mary had | | |25| W || @ a little @ lam | | |26| T || cooler @ Job waz | * * * * * | |27| F || @ @ a pashunt @ | | |28| S || fellow @ very hot | | |29| G || @ @ now chew @ | The road to ruin iz down hill, | |30| M || ice @ @ go slow | and McAdamized at that. | |31| T || | | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ _THE MILKSOP._