s
respectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is
"sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy."

STELLA, 4a3b4c3b, 14: A dialogue between Alfred, a volunteer at his
country's call, to Stella, his sweetheart.

THE WAGGONER'S LAD: See Section IX.

KAINTUCKY BOYS: See Section X.

BUCKSKIN BOYS: See Section X.

XIII.

_This group consists of humorous songs. Certain ones resemble modern
songs of the vaudeville, and such they probably were._

GRANDMOTHER'S MUSTARD PLASTER, 4aabb, 7ca: The story of a plaster that
drew the buttons from a vest, axles from a wagon, a street car forty
miles, jerked a "Chinee's" boot off and pulled his leg at the "opium
jint," mashed a "cop's" hat down, drew a wagon over town, stuck on a
passenger train, drew it to Washington, where it remained--stuck on
politics.

BOY AND BUMBLE-BEE, 4a3b4c3b(?), 5: An urchin puts a bumble-bee in his
pistol pocket and goes fishing. He sits down, the bee turns the trick,
and "spoils the urchin's disposition."

KATE AND THE CLOTHIER, 4aabb, 8ca: A jilted maiden disguises herself in
"an old cowhide with crooked horns," and seizes her clothier-lover in a
"lonesome field." Thinking her to be the Devil, he renounces the
lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate.

SEYMORE WILSON, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth. He goes
a-courting on Potriffle, but finding a rival sitting on the
"calico-side" returns to his plowing, weeps, then becomes cheerful in
his resolve to wait for another girl.

BILLY BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He replies to a series of questions about
his wife: she is "too young to leave her mammy," can "bake a
cherry-pie," is "as tall as a pine and as straight as a pumpkin-vine,"
is "twice six times seven, twice twenty and eleven," and so on.

[THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR], a chant of the 4a3b4c3b type, 7ca: He goes
hunting a-Sunday, meets a grizzly bear, climbs a tree, and prays a
humorous prayer for help. The limb breaks; he falls, but escapes.

[LOVE IS SUCH A FUNNY THING], 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e and 4a3b4c3b, 9: It
causes empty pockets, second-hand clothing, collectors, and even brings
the "bald-headed end of the broom" into play: a husband's soliloquy.

[THE MARRIED MAN], 4aa, 5: A married man's woes: children on his knees,
bad clothing, "seeping" shoes--while the single man suffers none of
these things.

DEVILISH MARY, 4a3b4c3b, 5: A hen-pecked husband's lament: he woos and
marries the termagant within thre