Says he, “I’d better call agin”;
Says she, “Think likely, Mister”;
Thet last word pricked him like a pin,
An’ …. Wal, he up an’ kist her.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American diplomat, essayist, poet
“The Courtin’,” st. 20 (1874)
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