Uncle Jim’s Experience

“I heard it was lucky” said Uncle Jim Ross,

“To pick up a shoe that belonged to a hoss;

So I looked up an’ down till I nearly went blind,

But nary a hoss-shoe could I ever find.”

“One day I went into a shop by the way,

An’ there by the forge did a hoss-shoe lay;

‘Now here is my luck,’ I said feeling grand,

But pickin’ it up I ‘bout roasted my hand.”

c. May 15, ‘09