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Eiger counter "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water," please the water was clean after father and mother and the water was better than ever even after the brother but when eye took my bath the poor baby was lost they looked in the drain but poor baby was gone there forever. The moral is kept as a memorial there does not toss out the clean water. A coward dies a thousand times but a hero dies but once and a man who lives much like a DOG is always spit upon but to be a dog still tied to the living is more to be desired than heroing because the bible says a man who lives is better than the dead. We will get married in JUNE no we will marry in JULY or even MAY is better because the ewe is born the first time in the month of May showers and what’s in JULY well the CHARLAX was born and bred. Bread was given out according to status. Workers were given the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle and guests got the top or the "upper crust." The loaf of bread is still the status but now the homeless man gets his loaf without the burnt part on. Eye am now the uppermost crust. Making the batter up planting the leaven worth leaving the center for mye family clan. Pease and thankzx ewe one and all for peas given do not thaw until the fall from vine refine the peas and make a handful last for days. This is why the nursery rhymers’ fortold: Peas porridge hot, peas’ porridge cold, pea’s porridge in the pot nine days old." Enter laughing. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would sit around with guests, cut off a bit of pork and "chew the fat." Then they would toss the ole pigskin. Play leap pig again. Slop the children. Smoke the hambone and root in the cellar. What a feller this poet seems at work. He has a eiger counter at his home.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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