Me an' Bert an' Minnie-Belle Knows a joke, an' we won't tell!
No, we don't -- 'cause we don't know _Why_ we got to laughin' so; But we got to laughin' so, "We ist kep' a-laughin'.
Wind wuz 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 _p'ten'_ -- We wuz _shore-'nough_ laughin'.
"We ist laugh' an' laugh', tel Bert Say he _can't_ quit an' it hurt.
Nen I _howl_, an' Minnie-Belle She tear up the grass a spell An' ist stop her yeers an' _yell_
Like she'd _die_ 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 _choke_ a-laughin'.
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