e days--then follows trouble. She
"mashes his mouth with a shovel," bundles up her "duds", and leaves him
within three weeks.

I WON'T MARRY AT ALL, 4aab3b and 4aab3b, 3: I won't marry a rich man
because he will drink and fall in the ditch; a poor man, for he will go
begging; a fat man, for he will do nothing but "nurse" the cat.

POOR OLD MAID, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:

Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue--
Poor old maid!
Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue,
I'm just as sweet as the morning dew,
And to a husband I'd stick like glue--
Poor old maid!

I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN, metre as below, 5: A married man's
repentance: his first wife died--

I married me another, O then, O then;
I married me another O then;
I married me another, the Devil's grandmother,
And I wish I was single again.

JOE BOWERS, 3abcb, 10: He leaves his sweetheart, Sally Black, in Pike
County, Missouri, and goes to "Rome," California, to make a home for
her. Later, he receives a letter from his brother Ike saying that she
had married a red-headed butcher and that their baby had red hair.

A POUND OF TOW, 3abcded, 4: A husband warns all bachelors by the example
of his own wife, who, though a good spinner before her marriage, has
since become a gad-about and a gossip.

XIV.

_The songs of this group, in lieu of a better caption, may be called
sentimental._

THE BLIND CHILD, iii, 4a3b4c3b, 11ca: She deplores her father's second
marriage, kneels to say her evening prayers, and dies. She is buried by
the side of her mother.

THE DYING NUN, 4abcb, 12: To Sister Martha, her nurse, Sister Clara
tells her youthful waywardness toward her parents and recalls her early
love for Douglas, and dies.

THE SHIP THAT NEVER RETURNED, 4a3b4c3b4d3e4f3e, 6: The vanity of human
wishes: a feeble lad kissing his mother good-bye as he sets sail to seek
health in a foreign climate; a gallant seaman kissing his wife good-bye
as he sets sail to seek their fortune across the seas--but the ship of
either never returned.

I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW, 3abab, 9: An orphan's lament, with a vision of the
mother's grave, etc.

THE ORPHAN GIRL, 4a3b4c3b, 8: Refused shelter at the door of a rich man
one wintry night, she dies before it in the snow.

PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS, 4ababcdcd and 4abab, 3: A mother's night-yearning for
her dead child.

[THE WAYWARD GIRL], 4aa6b4cc6b4dd6e4ff6e and 4ab