The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

She was a good housewife, too, and wouldn't have wasted

a penny if she had owned the Koh-i-noor;

She was just as strict as he was lax in her observance of

Sunday,

And being a good economist, and charitable besides, she

took all the bones and cold potatoes and broken

pie-crusts and candle-ends (when she had quite done

with them), and made them into an excellent soup

for the deserving poor.