Exclaimed, ‘for if the women don’t sustain

The moral standard, all we do is vain.’

‘But what we want,’ the Yankee said, ‘to know,

Is if the girl went willingly or no.

Sufficient motive though one does not see,

’Tis clear the grocer used some trickery.’

He judged himself, so strong the clinging in

This kind of people is to kith and kin;

For if they went and she remained behind,

No one she had, if him she failed to find.