A store and a girl in a showy gown,

To buy her gum and soothing smile;

You scarce believe me, it’s many a mile

I thus have trod with loving guile—

And one day laughing my teeth fell down,

In her presence, sir,

I could not help it.”

“That winsome girl who serves our table—

I vow that I am quite unable

To keep my eyes from following her,