The adder iz az spotted az a checker-board, and are very butiful tew
admire at a propper distance oph.
They hav a koal blak eye, which revolves on its axis, and shines like a
glass bead.
They kan be found in wet places, and are handy tew liv, both down in the
water, and up on the top ov the land. They kan slip oph from an old
bridge, or a log, into a mill pond, az natral, and az eazy, az a pint ov
turpentine, and kno how tew swim, and wave, on the brest ov sum water
like the shaddo ov the weeping willo.
They are harmless tew bight, but one adder, would spile all the bathing
thare waz in a mill pond for me, when i waz a boy.