the thing has put

Curi’s notions her noddle, for she says I’m

underfoot;

Thinks we oughter light the parlor, get a crowd

and ontertain,

But I ain’t no city loafer,—I’m a farmer down in

Maine.

Course I can’t hurt mother’s feelin’s, wouldn’t

do it for a mint,

Yet that parlor business sticks me, and I guess