Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

by Holman Day

THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP

I’m workin’ this week in the wood lot; a hearty

old job, you can bet;

I finish my chores with a larntern, and marin has

the table all set

By the time I get in with the milkin’; and after

I wash at the sink,

And marm sets a saucer o’ strainin’s for the cat

and the kittens to drink.