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Show JUST FOLKS By Edgar A. Qmmt VOTHING To LAI .H AT, I'Tain't OUthln' to laK at as I can see' Tf you'd ben stung by a bumble bes( An' vour nose wan swelled an" it smarted, too, You wouldn't want people to laff at you. If you had a lump that wuz full of fire Like you'd been touched by a red hot w Ire An" your nose spread out like a load of hay You wouldn't want strangers who come your way To ask you to let 'em see the place An' luff at you right before your face. What funny about it, I'd like to know ? It isn't a Joke to be hurted so' An' how wuz. 1 ever on earth to tell "At the pretty flower which 1 stooped to smell In our backyard wuz the very one Which a bee wuz buMly working on": An' Just as I got my nose down there He lifted his foot an' kicked for falrj An h planted his stinger right into me, I . Cut It's nothln' to laff at as I can see. II let out 0 yell an' my Maw came out ITo see what the trouble wan all about She says from inv shriek she wuz sure 'at I Hud been struck by a motor car passln' by But when she found what the matt 1 wuz She laffed Jus' like ever'body does An' she made me stand while she poked pok-ed about To pull his turrlble stinger out. An im Va laffed, too, when he looked at me. But It's nothln' to laff at. as I can see My Maw put witch hazel on the spot Tc take down the swellln but It has not It seems to git i-lgg- r as time goes by j An' 1 can't see good out o' UlIs one eye An' It hurts clean down to my very toes Whenever I've got to blow my nose. An' all I can say n when this gits well, There ain't any flower "at I'll stoop I to smell. I'm through dlsturbln' a bumble bee, But It's nothln' to laff at, as I can see. J |