That woman a husband has e'er in her eye;

And if no fine fellow her husband can be,

She'll even take up with a felo de se!

XII.

The neighbors came in. "What a pity!" said they,

"To lose such a daughter, and in such a way."

"My daughter be hanged!" said the parent sublime,—

"It's one thousand dollars I'm euchred this time!"

Chorus.—Deducing a beautiful and useful moral from this burst of paternal agony:

My dear fellow-citizens, lay it to heart: