A-kissing by the hour! That were before

The children come. Children do make a house

No comfort to a man. He had his right

To go. He didn’t want ’em, but I did!

I did!

Aye! and I’ve ’ad ’em now a whole seven years,

Worked for ’em, I lived for ’em, starved for ’em,

And I’d die

So it could better ’em.

Snowman.—