Well, afterwhile, they stopped the fuss,

An’ some one kindly parted us.

All beat an’ cuffed an’ clawed an’ scratched,

An’ needin’ both our faces patched,

Each started hum a different way;

An’ what o’ Liza, do you say,

Why, Liza—little humbug—darn her,

Why, she’d gone home with Hiram Turner.

—Copyright by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, and used by special arrangement.

THE FIRST FURROW