But as soon as you've bought 'em they pine.

Both. And that's what they mean when they say, or they sing,

"He's as green as a man who buys flowers in the Spring,"

Tra la la la la la, &c.

Mater. The flowers that bloom in the Spring,

Tra la!

Are a sell, my dear hub, in our case.

I bought this with a "suit"—there's the sting,

Pa-pa!

Which he said was "a worn-hout hold thing,"