The Biggest Fish

Yew never heerd me tell

About thet monster? Well!

He wuz the biggest one

I ever seen, I swun!

When I describe his eyes

I can’t believe my eyes;

An’ I don’t ‘spect thet yew

Will skurcely b’lieve it, tew.

Daown Lizzard Crick one day

I fished an’ fished away,

An’ here I wanter state

I hed the proper bait,

An’ ev’rything wuz clear,

My head an’ hands an’ gear,

When I felt, off the bank,

A most tremenjus yank.

My cork went out uv sight,

My pole bent double quite;

The Crick she b’iled an’ b’iled,

An’ got all riled an’ riled.

I straightened like a bull,

An’ fetched a mighty pull,

An’ would yew b’lieve it, say,

He – well, he got away.

Oct. 8, ‘06