And then Elkanah he’d stand back
And say: “There, people, now hoe in;
When ye’ve et that grub, pass up ag’in;
Of course we hain’t no big hotel,
But some few things, why, we dew well.”
P. Mortimer Perkins came down from New
York,
—A salesman for corsets and things;
With his trousers all creased and a lah-de-dah
walk,