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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Regardin' Terry Hut</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sence I tuk holt o' Gibbses' Churn<br>And be'n a-handlin' the concern,<br>I've travelled round the grand old State<br>Of Indiany, lots, o' late--!<br>I've canvassed Crawferdsville and sweat<br>Around the town o' Layfayette;<br>I've saw a many a County-seat<br>I ust to think was hard to beat:<br>At constant dreenage and expense<br>I've worked Greencastle and Vincennes--<br>Drapped out o' Putnam into Clay,<br>Owen, and on down thataway<br>Plum into Knox, on the back-track<br>Fer home ag'in-- and glad I'm back--!<br>I've saw these towns, as I say-- but<br>They's none 'at beats old Terry Hut!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's more'n likely you'll insist<br>I claim this 'cause I'm prejudist,<br>Bein' born'd here in ole Vygo<br>In sight o' Terry Hut--; but no,<br>Yer clean dead wrong--! And I maintain<br>They's nary drap in ary vein<br>O' mine but what's as free as air<br>To jest take issue with you there--!<br>'Cause, boy and man, fer forty year,<br>I've argied ag'inst livin' here,<br>And jawed around and traded lies<br>About our lack o' enterprise,<br>And tuk and turned in and agreed<br>All other towns was in the lead,<br>When-- drat my melts--! They couldn't cut<br>No shine a-tall with Terry Hut!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take even, statesmanship, and wit,<br>And ginerel git-up-and-git,<br>Old Terry Hut is sound clean through--!<br>Turn old Dick Thompson loose, er Dan<br>Vorehees-- and where's they any man<br>Kin even hold a candle to<br>Their eloquence--? And where's as clean<br>A fi-nan-seer as Rile' McKeen--<br>Er puorer, in his daily walk,<br>In railroad er in racin' stock!<br>And there's 'Gene Debs-- a man 'at stands<br>And jest holds out in his two hands<br>As warm a heart as ever beat<br>Betwixt here and the Jedgement Seat--!<br>All these is reasons why I putt<br>Sich bulk o' faith in Terry Hut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I've come back, with eyes 'at sees<br>My faults, at last--, to make my peace<br>With this old place, and truthful' swear--<br>Like Gineral Tom Nelson does--,<br>'They hain't no city anywhere<br>On God's green earth lays over us!'<br>Our city government is grand--<br>'Ner is they better farmin'-land<br>Sun-kissed--' as Tom goes on and says--<br>'Er dower'd with sich advantages!'<br>And I've come back, with welcome tread,<br>From journeyin's vain, as I have said,<br>To settle down in ca'm content,<br>And cuss the towns where I have went,<br>And brag on ourn, and boast and strut<br>Around the streets o' Terry Hut!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q>
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And be'n a-handlin' the concern,
I've travelled round the grand old State
Of Indiany, lots, o' late--!
I've canvassed Crawferdsville and sweat
Around the town o' Layfayette;
I've saw a many a County-seat
I ust to..."></div>
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