Las' July - An', I Persume 'Bout As Hot As The Ole Gran'-Jury Room Where They Sot! - Fight 'Twixt Mike An' Dock Mcgriff - 'Pears To Me Jes' Like As If I'd A Dremp' The Whole Blame Thing - Allus Ha'Nts Me Roun' The Gizzard When They're Nightmares On The Wing, An' A Feller'S Blood'S Jes' Friz! Seed The Row From A To Izzard - 'Cause I Wuz A-Standin' As Clost To 'Em As Me An' You Is! Tell You The Way It Wuz - An' I Do N'T Want To See, Like Some Fellers Does, When They 're Goern To Be Any Kind O' Fuss - On'Y Makes A Rumpus Wuss Far To Interfere When Their Dander'S Riz - But I Wuz A-Standin' As Clost To 'Em As Me An' You Is! I Wuz Kind O' Strayin' Past The Blame Saloon - Heerd Some Fiddler Playin' That "Ole Hee-Cup Tune!" Sort O' Stopped, You Know, Far A Minit Er So, And Wuz Jes' About Settin' Down, When - Jeemses-Whizz! Whole Durn Winder-Sash Fell Out! An' There Laid Doc Mcgriff, And Mike A-Straddlin' Him, All Bloody-Like, An' Both A-Gittin' Down To Biz! - An' I Wuz A-Standin' As Clost To 'Em As Me An' You Is! I Wuz The On'Y Man Aroun' - (Durn Old-Fogy Town! 'Peared More Like, To Me, Sund'Y 'An Saturd'Y!) Dog Come 'Crost The Road An' Tuck A Smell An' Put Right Back; Mishler Driv By 'Ith A Load O' Cantalo'Pes He Couldn't Sell - Too Mad, 'Y Jack! To Even Ast What Wuz Up, As He Went Past! Weather Most Outrageous Hot! - Fairly Hear It Sizz Roun' Dock An' Mike - Till Dock He Shot, An' Mike He Slacked That Grip O' His An' Fell, All Spraddled Out. Dock Riz 'Bout Half Up, A-Spittin' Red, An' Shuck His Head - An' I Wuz A-Standin' As Clost To 'Em As Me An' You Is! An' Dock He Says, A-Whisperin'-Like, - "It Hain'T No Use A-Tryin'! - Mike He's Jes' Ripped My Daylights Loose! - Git That Blame-Don Fiddler To Let Up, An' Come Out Here - You Got Some Burryin' To Do, - Mike Makes One, An' I Expects In Ten Seconds I'll Make Two!" And He Drapped Back, Where He Riz, 'Crost Mike'S Body, Black And Blue, Like A Great Big Letter X! - An' I Wuz A-Standin' As Clost To 'Em As Me An' You Is!