An’ the other round the baby, who wuz yellin’ fur to kill!

So we saved ’em. She wuz gritty. She’s ez peart ez she kin be—

Now we’re married; she’s no chicken, but she’s good enough fur me,

An’ ef eny ask who owns her, wy! I ain’t ashamed to tell—

She’s my wife. Ther’ ain’t none better than ole Filkin’s daughter “Nell.”

Eugene J. Hall.

JIM.

He was jes’ a plain, ever’-day, all-round kind of a jour.,