Funny Folks. April 29, 1876.
This is an imitation of the style of Colonel John Hay’s poems, for which see page 246.
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The Wife.
Her washing ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And passed the long, long night away,
In darning ragged hose.
But when the sun in all its state
Illumined the Eastern skies,