Stocks, back-boards, hash, steel-collars, and good breeding
From this repertory of female learning,
Came Ellen once a quarter, always fatter!
To gratify the eyes of parents yearning.
’Twas evident in bolsters, beef, and batter,
Hard dumplings, and rice-milk, she did not smatter,
But heartily, as Jenkins says, “demollidge;”
But as for any learning, not to flatter,
As often happens when girls leave their college,
She had done nothing but grow out of knowledge.