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James Whitcomb Riley - "Old Bob White"James Whitcomb Riley - "Old Bob White"
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Old Bob White`s a funny bird!--   Funniest you ever heard!--     Hear him whistle,--"Old--Bob--_White_!"   You can hear him, clean from where   He`s `way `crosst the wheat-field there,   Whistlin` like he didn`t care--             "Old-Bob-_White_!"   Whistles alluz ist the same--   So`s we won`t fergit his name!--     Hear him say it?--"Old--Bob--_White_!"   _There!_ he`s whizzed off down the lane--   Gone back where his folks is stayin`--   Hear him?--There he goes again,--             "Old--Bob--_White_!"   When boys ever tries to git   Clos`t to him--how quick he`ll quit     Whistlin` his "Old-Bob--_White_!"   "_Whoo-rhoo-rhoo!_" he`s up an` flew,   Ist a-purt`-nigh skeerin` you   Into fits!--`At`s what he`ll do.--             "Old-Bob--_White_!"   Wunst our Hired Man an` me,   When we drove to Harmony,     Saw one, whistlin` "Old--Bob--_White_!"   An` we drove _wite clos`t_, an` I   Saw him an` he didn`t fly,--   Birds likes horses, an` that`s why.             "Old--Bob--_White_!"   One time, Uncle Sidney says,   Wunst he rob` a Bob White`s nes`     Of the eggs of "Old Bob White";   Nen he hatched `em wiv a hen   An` her little chicks, an` nen   They ist all flewed off again!             "Old--Bob--_White_!"
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