How to stop it), I tells you at vunce, I must go;
Yes, although I’ve lived here
A good twenty-five year,
I am sorry to say (for I knows what your loss is)
You must get some vun else to look arter your ’orses.”
Roger’s wonderful tale
Seemed of little avail,
For Maude neither fainted, nor screamed, nor turned pale,
But she signed with her finger to bid him draw near;
And cried, “Roger, come here,