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-