milk pails in.
That’s the style of things to our house—marm
and me we don’t pull up
Until ev’ry critter’s eatin’, from the cattle to
the pup.
Then the biskits and the spare-rib and plum
preserves taste good,
For we’re feelin’, me and mother, that we’re
actin’ ’bout’s we should.
Like as can be, after supper mother sews an-