I’d try yer a wake, so I would.

(She looks like the kind I can manage,

A thin thing without any blood!)

But mind, if I comes for a wake, ma’am,

I comes for that time, and no liss;

And so, thin, purvidin’ ye’d want me,

Just give me your name and addriss.

SONG—Bee-hive Town. TUNE—“Marching Through Georgia.”

Have you ever been to see the busy Bee-Hive Town,