When Lide Married _Him_

When Lide married him--w'y, she had to jes dee-fy The whole poppilation!--But she never bat' an eye! Her parents begged, and threatened--she must give him up--that he Wuz jes "a common drunkard!"--And he wuz, appearantly.-- Swore they'd chase him off the place Ef he ever showed his face-- Long after she'd eloped with him and married him fer shore!-- When Lide married him, it wuz "Katy, bar the door!"

When Lide married him--Well! she had to go and be A hired girl in town somewheres--while he tromped round to see What he could git that he could do,--you might say, jes sawed wood From door to door!--that's what he done--'cause that wuz best he could! And the strangest thing, i jing! Wuz, he didn't drink a thing,-- But jes got down to bizness, like he someway wanted to, When Lide married him, like they warned her not to do!

When Lide married him--er, ruther, had ben married A little up'ards of a year--some feller come and carried That hired girl away with him--a ruther stylish feller In a bran-new green spring-wagon, with the wheels striped red and yeller: And he whispered, as they driv Tords the country, "Now we'll live!"-- And somepin' else she laughed to hear, though both her eyes wuz dim, 'Bout "trustin' Love and Heav'n above, sence Lide married him!"