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HIS LOVE OF HOME 
 
 ^^As love ot native land," the old man said, 
 «'Er stars and stripes a-wavin' overhead, 
 Er nearest kith-and-kin, er daily bread, 
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Don't know now 
 How we ever saved the child! 
 Doc he d give her up, and said 
 (i\s I stood there by the bed 
 Sort o' foohn' with her hair 
 On the hot wet piller there^ 
 *'Wuz no use!" — And at them-air 
 Very words she waked and smiled — 
 Yes, and hiowed me. And that's where 
 I broke down, and simply jes 
 Bellered like a boy — I guess! — 
 
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Women claimed I did, but I 
 Alius belt I didnt cry 
 But wuz laughin', — and I wuz, — - 
 (Men dorit cry like women does!] 
 Well, right then and there I felt 
 'T 'uz her mother's doin's, and, 
 Jes like to myse'f, I knelt, 
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 So I've raised her, you might say^ 
 Stric'ly in the narrer way 
 'At her mother walked therein — 
 Not so quite religiously^ 
 Yit still strivin'-like to do 
 Ever' thing a father could 
 Do he knowed the mother would 
 Ef she'd lived. — And now all's through 
 And r got her home ag'in — 
 Home ag'in with me! 
 
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Still he don't count much, you know, 
 In the line o' company — 
 Lonesome, 'peared-like, 'most as me 
 So, as / say, I' bin so 
 Special lonesome-like and blue, 
 With Elviry, like she's bin, 
 'Way so much, last two er three 
 Year'. — But now she's home ag'in- 
 Home ag'in with me! 
 
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 Yes, and sung! — tel, blame it! I '^'^%^. 
 
 Keyed my voice up 'bout as high 
 As when — days 'at I wuz young — 
 "Buckwheat-notes" wuz all they sung. 
 Jonas bantered me, and 'greed 
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 Gittin' home! — and things she had 
 To inquire about, and talk — 
 ^^^5^^ Plowin', plantin', and the stock — - 
 News o' neighberhood; and how 
 Wuz the Deem-girls doin' now, 
 Sence that-air young chicken-hawk 
 They was *'tamin'" soared away 
 With their settin'-hen, one day? — 
 (Said she'd got Mame's postal-card 
 i^'Bout it, very day 'at she 
 
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How wuz pro-duce — eggs, and lard? — 
 
 Er wuz stores still claimin' "hard 
 
 Times," as usual? And, says she, 
 
 Troubled-like, '* How's Deedie — say? 
 
 Sence pore child e-loped away 
 
 And got back, and goin' to 'ply 
 
 Fer school-license by and by — 
 
 And where's 'Lijy workin' at? 
 
 And how's *Aunt' and * Uncle Jake'? 
 
 How wuz *01d Maje' — and the cat'' 4^; 
 
 ^COAnd wuz Marthy's baby fat 
 (C^-^^/av^-n As his *Humpty-Dumpty' mar— 
 
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 Sweetest thing: she ever saw! — 
 Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too, 
 Soon as she turned in and got 
 Supper fer us — smokin'-hot— 
 And the * dishes' all wuz through, — -** 
 S/'cI? a supper! W'y, I set 
 There and et, and et, and et !— 
 Jes et on, tel Jonas he 
 Pushed his chair back, laughed, and says 
 W!ixi\ 0*v^v-. '* I could walk /lis Iop; ! " 
 
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And we 
 All laughed then, tel 'Viry she 
 Lit the lamp — and I give in! — 
 Riz and kissed her: "Heaven bless 
 You!" says I — "you're home ag' in- 
 Same old dimple in your chin, 
 Same white apern," I-says-ee, 
 "Same sweet girl, and good to see 
 As your juother ust to be, — 
 And r got you home ag'in — 
 
 Home ag'in with me!" . . . 
 
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And by and by 
 Heerd Elviry, soft and low. 
 At the organ, kind o' go 
 A mi-anderin' up and down 
 With her fingers 'mongst the keys 
 "Vacant Chair" and "Old Cam 
 
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 Dusk was moist-like, with a b 
 Lazin' round the locus'-trees . 
 Heerd the bosses champin', an 
 Jonas ieedin' — and the hogs — 
 Yes, and katydids and frogs — 
 And a tree-toad, som'er's. , . 
 
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 Also whipperwills. — My land!— 
 All so mournful ever' where— 
 Them out here, and her in there,— 
 That the whole thing railly 'peared 
 'Most like 'tendin' Services! 
 Anyway^ I must 'a' jes 
 Kind o' drapped asleep, I guess; 
 'Cause when Jonas must 'a' passed 
 Me, a-comin' in, I knowed 
 Nothin' of it — yit it seemed 
 Sort o' like I kind o' dreamed 
 'Bout him, too, a-slippin' in, 
 
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 And a-watchin' back to see 
 Ef I wiiz asleep — and then 
 Passin' in where 'Viry wuz — 
 And where, I declare, it does 
 'Pear to me I heerd him say. 
 Wild and glad and whisperin' — 
 'Peared-like heerd him say, says-ee, 
 **Ah ! r got you home ag'in — 
 Home ag'in witn me 
 
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