39. SHE FAR OUTtlVED THE FARMER'S BRIDE.

In lowly hut on mountain side,

Eating squirrel, skunk and woodchuck,

She far outlived the farmer's bride,

Eating beef and bread and butter.

Longer lived she in the cabin,

Drinking from the Tunxis River,

Pounding corn for hungry children;

Longer lived she eating woodchuck,

And the fearless woodland pussy;

Longer lived she sleeping nightly

On her bed of hemlock branches

Than the housewives of the farmers,

Living in their boarded houses,

Eating beef and bread and butter;

Drinking from the oaken bucket,

Sleeping on their beds of feathers,

Free from father's burning anger

And the shouting of his orders.