My sister’s best feller is ‘most six-foot-three,
And handsome and strong as a feller can be;
And Sis, she’s so little, and slender, and small,
You never would think she could boss him at all;
But, my jing!
She do’n’t do a thing
But make him jump ’round, like he worked with a string!
It jest makes me ‘shamed of him sometimes, you know,
To think that he’ll let a girl bully him so.
He goes to walk with her and carries her muff
And coat and umbrella, and that kind of stuff;
She loads him with things that must weigh ‘most a ton;
And, honest, he _likes_ it,–as if it was fun!
And, oh, say!
When they go to a play,
He’ll sit in the parlor and fidget away,
And she won’t come down till it’s quarter past eight,
And then she’ll scold _him_ ’cause they get there so late.
He spends heaps of money a-buyin’ her things,
Like candy, and flowers, and presents, and rings;
And all he’s got for ’em ‘s a handkerchief case–
A fussed-up concern, made of ribbons and lace;
But, my land!
He thinks it’s just grand,
“‘Cause she made it,” he says, “with her own little hand”;
He calls her “an angel”–I heard him–and “saint,”
And “beautif’lest bein’ on earth”–but she ain’t.
‘Fore _I_ go an errand for her any time
I jest make her coax me, and give me a dime;
But that great, big silly–why, honest and true–
He’d run forty miles if she wanted him to.
Oh, gee whiz!
I tell you what ’tis!
I jest think it’s _awful_–those actions of his.
_I_ won’t fall in love, when I’m grown–no sir-ee!
My sister’s best feller’s a warnin’ to me!
(Joseph C Lincoln)
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