ME an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle Knows a joke, an' we won't tell! No, we don't -- 'cause we don't know @3Why@1 we got to laughin' so; But we got to laughin' so, We ist kep' a-laughin'. Wind uz blowin' in the tree -- An' wuz only ist us three Playin' there; an' ever' one Ketched each other, like we done, Squintin' up there at the sun Like we wuz a-laughin'. Nothin' funny anyway; But I laughed, an' so did they -- An' we all three laughed, an' nen Squint' our eyes an' laugh' again: Ner we didn't ist @3p'ten'@1 -- We wuz @3shore-'nough@1 laughin'. We ist laugh' an' laugh', tel Bert Say he @3can't@1 quit an' it hurt. Nen I @3howl,@1 an' Minnie-Belle She tear up the grass a spell An' ist stop her yeers an' @3yell@1 Like she'd @3die@1 a-laughin'. Never sich fool-youngens yit! Nothin' funny, -- not a bit! -- But we laugh' so, tel we whoop' Purt' nigh like we have the croup -- All so hoarse we'd wheeze an' whoop An' ist @3choke@1 a-laughin'. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOW AND AFTERWARDS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES by FRANCIS BRET HARTE TO MY GRANDMOTHER; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY MR. ROMNEY by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON THE BELLS OF YOUTH by WILLIAM SHARP |