To buy some butter-scotch.

My Hepsy tored her apron

A tum’lin’ down the stair,

And Cæsar’s lost his pantloons.

And needs anozzer pair.

I wants some newer mittens—

I wish you’d knit me some,

’Cause most my fingers freezes,

They leaks so in the fum.

I wored ’em out last summer,