"TAKE CARE."
Have you a wife with real estate?
Take care!
She can "devise, and alienate,"
Beware! Beware!
She has got
The whip hand of thee!
Too promptly she may take her cue,
Beware!
And learn she has the "power to sue,"
Take care! Take care!
Thwart her not,
She'll be down on thee!
Her three per cents are but a snare,
Take care!
She "holds" as if femme sole she were,
Beware! Beware!
Has she not
The whip hand of thee?
You, Darby, who could sponge on Joan,
Take care!
Henceforth her earrings are her own,
Beware! Beware!
Touch them not,
She'll be down on thee!
If this new law be put in force,
Take care!
Lest th' old mare prove the better horse,
Beware! Beware!
Marry not,
There's a hint for thee!
From The Tomahawk.