As 'Twuz and As 'Tiz

DESCRIPTION: "McCarty and Kelly sat beside the road... Discussing the chow of logging camps." Mac describes the camp of "Micky Dunroe an' Joe Pretto." The loggers in those days could only dream of decent food, but now the camps "are systematic"
AUTHOR: William Moriarty (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: logger food hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 152-153, "As 'Twuz and As 'Tiz" (1 text)
NOTES [31 words]: For other poems attributed to William Moriarity in Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, see the notes to "Paul King." I have seen no evidence that any of them made it into tradition. - RBW
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