An' little mouth's laughs.

Though 'tis hard stripes to breed em all up,

If I'm only a-blest vrom above,

They'll meäke me amends wi' their love,

Vor their pillow, their pleäte, an' their cup;

Though I shall be never a-spweil'd

Wi' the sarvice that money can buy;

Still the hands ov a wife an' a child

Be the blessèns ov low or ov high;

An' if there be mouths to be ved,