<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hoodoo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Owned a pair o' skates onc't.--Traded<br>Fer 'em,--stropped 'em on and waded<br>Up and down the crick, a-waitin'<br>Tel she'd freeze up fit fer skatin'.<br>Mildest winter I remember--<br>More like Spring- than Winter-weather!--<br>Did n't _frost_ tel bout December-<br>Git up airly ketch a' feather<br>Of it, mayby, 'crost the winder--<br>Sunshine swinge it like a cinder!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well--I _waited_--and _kep_' waitin'!<br>Couldn't see my money's w'oth in<br>Them-air skates and was no skatin',<br>Ner no hint o' ice ner nothin'!<br>So, one day--along in airly<br>Spring--I swopped 'em off--and barely<br>Closed the dicker, 'fore the weather<br>Natchurly jes slipped the ratchet,<br>And crick--tail-race--all together,<br>Froze so tight cat couldn't scratch it!</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416795" data-title="The Hoodoo de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Owned a pair o' skates onc't.--Traded Fer 'em,--stropped 'em on and waded Up and down the crick, a-waitin' Tel she'd freeze up fit fer skatin'. Mildest winter I remember-- More like Spring- than Winter-weather!-- Did n't _frost_ tel bout December-..."></div> </div> </div>

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