Since you wear the skunk and mink,

There’s no harm in me, I think.”

“Well,” said she, “we will not quarrel,

“Hiram: I accept the moral.

Now the fashion’s so, I guess

I can’t hardly do no less.”

Thus the trouble all was over

Of the love of Hiram Hover;

Thus he made sweet Huldah Hyde

Huldah Hover as his bride.