But still her grateful heart was glad
To know the help and hope we had.
I thought in this extremity,
There’d be a wondrous rush for me,
That I’d be claimed by all our kin,
But found myself quite taken in.
My country aunts took all the rest,
Though, after all, we fared the best.
The oldest boy, my brother Joe,
Who helped my father plough and hoe,