For she felt sartain-sure he’d come,

Down to her very shoe-sole.

She heered a foot, and knowed it tu,

A-rasping on the scraper,—

All ways to once her feelin’s flew,

Like sparks in burnt-up paper.

He kin’ o’ l’itered on the mat

Some doubtfle o’ the sekle;

His heart kep’ goin’ pity-pat,

But hern went pity Zekle.