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1862–1942

XII.

Samuel Ellsworth Kiser

She's back to work again; I'm awful glad; When she was sick it seemed to me as though The clocks all got to goin’ kind of slow, And every key she pounds looked kind of sad.

It's tough to have to hear her coughin’ so — I wish that I could take her cold and she Would know I took it, and not have to blow Her nose no more, and be as well as me.

She takes some kind of cough stuff in a spoon, I seen her lickin’ it this morning when She took a dose and put it down again, And when the rest went out awhile at noon

I got her spoon and licked it, and it seemed As though it all was something nice I dreamed.

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