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James Whitcomb Riley - Fool-Youngens
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Me an` Bert an` Minnie-Belle
  Knows a joke, an` we won`t tell!
  No, we don`t--`cause we don`t know
  _Why_ we got to laughin` so;
  But we got to laughin` so,
      "We ist kep` a-laughin`.

  Wind wuz blowin` in the tree--
  An` wuz only ist us three
  Playin` there; an` ever` one
  Ketched each other, like we done,
  Squintin` up there at the sun
      Like we wuz a-laughin`.

  Nothin` funny anyway;
  But I laughed, an` so did they--
  An` we all three laughed, an` nen
  Squint` our eyes an` laugh` again:
  Ner we didn`t ist _p`ten`_--
      We wuz _shore-`nough_ laughin`.

  "We ist laugh` an` laugh`, tel Bert
  Say he _can`t_ quit an` it hurt.
  Nen I _howl_, an` Minnie-Belle
  She tear up the grass a spell
  An` ist stop her yeers an` _yell_
      Like she`d _die_ a-laughin`.

  Never sich fool-youngens yit!
  Nothin` funny,--not a bit!--
  But we laugh` so; tel we whoop`
  Purt`-nigh like we have the croup--
  All so hoarse we`d wheeze an` whoop
      An` ist _choke_ a-laughin`.
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