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<h2>Reminiscences</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> THERE came a dash of snow last night, An’ ’fore I went to bed, I somehow got to thinkin’ ’bout That old place, Kettletread. I’m silly ’bout that spot of earth, Though why, I can’t surmise, For it has got me in more scrapes And made me tell more lies, When me, an’ you, An’ Taylor’s boys, Were always in the spill, A stealin’ off From work to go A-coastin’ down that hill. </div> <div class="stanza"> Do you rec’lect how we used to stand An’ holler out like sin, “Now one must pass that walnut stump{37} Afore the rest chips in?” An’ if one tumbled in the snow, we only stopped to laugh, An’ all the help we ever gave was aggravatin’ chaff. </div> <div class="stanza"> Zip! Zip! the frost and snow A pickin’ at our face, The wind just howlin’ ’cause it knowed ’Twas beat fair in the race! </div> <div class="stanza"> Good gracious! Jim, if I could stand, a-lookin’ down that hill, A-watchin’ you boys tumblin’ off an’ laughin’ at the spill; An’ then grab up my Noah’s Ark, so clumsy and so wide, An’ pull the rope, an’ hold her back, there let her go kerslide— </div> <div class="stanza"> An’ see that glazy piece of ice A-spannin’ that old crick, An’ know I couldn’t stop this side If ’twas to save my neck— </div> <div class="stanza"> Now don’t you get excited, Jim, ’cause I’m a-talkin’ so, That would be awful foolish—Gosh! just hear that north wind blow. </div> </div></div> {38} <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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