Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

Wall he wuz a bligin sort of a feller, and he told me thar wuz a place round the corner whar a feller done all the washin’, so I went round, and there was a sine on the winder what sed Hop Quick, or Hop Soon, or jump up and hop, or some other kind of a durned hop; and then thar wuz a lot of figers on the winder that I couldn’t make head nor tail on; it jist looked to me like a chicken with mud on its feet had walked over that winder...FROM THE BOOKS.