[Governor Dinwiddie]

My grandmother would have us kids sit close to her and in her lap. She would recite from memory the James Whitcomb Rieley poem Little Orphant Annie."

Click the link for the full poem, from the website "Poems That Every Child Should Know". But here is an except from the last stanza:

An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue,
An' the lamp wick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo!
An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray,
An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away,
You better mind yer parents, an' yer teachers fond an' dear,
An' churish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear,
An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns'll git you
⁠Ef you
⁠Don't
⁠Watch
⁠Out!

[ArtDodger]

Ha! I can just see a good tickle being administered with the last ‘Watch out!
To fun!