Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

by Holman Day

I’ll have to hint

That I ain’t an ontertainer, and I’ll leave that

job to son;

I’ll set out here in the kitchen while the folks

are having fun.

And if marm comes out to get me, I will pull

her on my lap,

And she’ll know—and she’ll forgive me, for I’m

jest a kitchen chap.