And cook, and early run and late;

And then my mother is, in every whit,

So accurate!

Not that she needs to pinch her household; we

Might do much more than many others do:

My father left a goodly sum, quite free

From debt, with a neat house and garden too,

Close by the town, just as you pass the gate;

But we have lived retired enough of late.

My brother is a soldier: he