Tends greatly to widen and quicken the mouth;
And if a fair Southerner's language is coarse,
'Tis because nothing finer her style would endorse.
X.
The parent went out, and he stayed for an hour,
Having taken some punch and a Hennessey—sour;
And when he came back, 'twas his daughter he found
Slain by her own scissors, and dead on the ground.
Chorus.—Suggesting facts to the coroner's jury, and clearing up all mystery as to the lamentable suicide:
Since scissors for ripping out stitches are made,