—But Ephrum kept his dogs.
How he scraped up cash to license ’em it ain’t
in me to say,
—But I know he kept his dogs.
And when a suff’rin’ neighbor ambuscaded ’em,
Eph swore—
Then in a kind of homesick way he hustled
round for more;
He struck a lucky bargain and, by thunder, he
bought four!