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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37142" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Yankee Shrewdness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a little country village,<br>Not many years ago,<br>There lived a real "live Yankee,"<br>Whom they called "Old Uncle Snow."<br>In trade he had no equal;<br>And storekeepers would say,<br>"We're always 'out of pocket'<br>When Snow comes round this way."<br>'Twas the custom of the villagers —<br>Few of them being rich —<br>To trade their surplus "garden-sass"<br>For groceries and "sich".<br>One store supplied the village<br>With goods of every kind,<br>Including wines and liquors<br>For those that way inclined.<br>A counter in the "sample-room"<br>Was fixed up very neat;<br>And after every "barter-trade"<br>The storekeeper would "treat".<br>Old Snow brought in, one morning,<br>An egg fresh from the barn,<br>And said, "Give me a needle:<br>My woman wants to darn."<br>The trade was made: the storekeeper<br>Asked him to take a drink.<br>"I'll humor him," he said, aside,<br>As the lookers-on did wink.<br>"Don't care, naow, ef I do," says Snow;<br>"And, as your goin' to treat,<br>Just put a leetle sugar in,—<br>I like my liquor sweet.<br>"And, say, while you're about it, —<br>Though I don't like to beg,—<br>'Twill taste a leetle better<br>If you drop in an egg."<br>"All right, friend," says the grocer,<br>Now being fairly "caught,"<br>And dropped into the tumbler<br>The egg that Snow had brought!<br>The egg contained a double yolk.<br>Says Snow, "Here, this won't do:<br>Give me another needle, 'Squire;<br>This egg's the same as two!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><div class=q>
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