When Lide MarriedHim

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!"