Thanks, Charley!

Actually, I mentioned it on the first post of this thread :) :) ...and it's discussed a little further down, also under the titles "Sister Susan" and "Shinbone Al."

But there is not a lot of detail, so thanks for contributing this information.

Gibb

P.S. I always just thought it was phonetic spelling of "by and by", "by 'n' by," which I have gotten the sense was, for some 19th century speakers, almost just a superfluous phrase...akin to today's "noamsayin" (know what I'm saying)!