The Farmer And The Dude Dialect

              “I’d like to dwop a hook

              In your chawming little bwook,”

The angler from the city lisped unto good farmer Swish;

              “Yes, yes, jes’ fish away,”

              The farmer said, “But say,

Don’t drop yewr langige in the straeam, it mought kill off the fish.”                drop might

April 13, 1895

Pub. in the Boston

Courier, Apr. 21

    ‘95