earnings

Seem'd to the poor widow hard, who raved and scolded

him always.

Nought in her house was left; not a cheese, not a loaf,

not an onion;

Nought but a cow in her yard, and that must go to the

market.

"Sell me the cow," cried she; then he sold it, gad! for a

handful——

Only to think!———of beans. She shied them out thro'