First she washed them, and then she dried them

Over a fire of amber coal:

Never in all my life did I see

A maid so neat about the sole!

A STREET IN ARDARA.

Finally he gives “I’m a Good Old Rebel,” a ballad of the type that became so popular in the Southern States of America after the Civil war:

I’m a good old rebel—that’s what I am,

And for this fair land of freedom I don’t care a damn;

I’m glad I fought agin it, I only wish we’d won,