StoryTitle("caps", "Jane Jones") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(71, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones keeps talkin' to me all the time, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' says \"You must make it a rule", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To study your lessons an' work hard an' learn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' never be absent from school.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remember the story of Elihu Burritt, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' how he clum up to the top,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Got all the knowledge 'at he ever had ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down in a blacksmithing shop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course what 's a keepin' me 'way from the top, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is not never havin' no blacksmithing shop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said that Ben Franklin was awfully poor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But full of ambition an' brains;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' studied philosophy all his hull life, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' see what he got for his pains!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He brought electricity out of the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a kite an' a bottle an' key,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' we're owing him more 'n any one else ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For all the bright lights 'at we see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course what's allers been hinderin' me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is not havin' any kite, lightning, er key.", "") ?>
PagePoem(72, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones said Abe Lincoln had no books at all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' used to split rails when a boy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' General Grant was a tanner by trade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' lived way out in Ill'nois.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when the great war in the South first broke out ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He stood on the side o' the right,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' when Lincoln called him to take charge o' things, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He won nearly every blamed fight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still I ain't to blame, not by a big sight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I ain't never had any battles to fight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said 'at Columbus was out at the knees", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he first thought up his big scheme, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' told all the Spaniards 'nd Italians, too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' all of 'em said 't was a dream.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Queen Isabella jest listened to him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Nd pawned all her jewels o' worth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Nd bought him the Santa Maria, 'nd said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Go hunt up the rest o' the earth!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course that may be, but you must allow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They ain't no land to discover jest now!—", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Benjamin Franklin King.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>