When Lide married _him_--w'y, she had to jes dee-fy <br />The whole poppilation!--But she never bat' an eye! <br />Her parents begged, and _threatened_--she must give him up--that _he_ <br />Wuz jes 'a common drunkard!'--And he _wuz_, appearantly.-- <br />Swore they'd chase him off the place <br />Ef he ever showed his face-- <br />Long after she'd _eloped_ with him and _married_ him fer shore!-- <br />When Lide married _him_, it wuz '_Katy, bar the door!_' <br /> <br />When Lide married _him_--Well! she had to go and be <br />A _hired girl_ in town somewheres--while he tromped round to see <br />What _he_ could git that _he_ could do,--you might say, jes sawed wood <br />From door to door!--that's what he done--'cause that wuz best he could! <br />And the strangest thing, i jing! <br />Wuz, he didn't _drink_ a thing,-- <br />But jes got down to bizness, like he someway _wanted_ to, <br />When Lide married him, like they warned her _not_ to do! <br /> <br />When Lide married _him_--er, ruther, _had_ ben married <br />A little up'ards of a year--some feller come and carried <br />That _hired girl_ away with him--a ruther _stylish_ feller <br />In a bran-new green spring-wagon, with the wheels striped red and yeller: <br />And he whispered, as they driv <br />Tords the country, '_Now we'll live!_'-- <br />And _somepin' else_ she _laughed_ to hear, though both her eyes wuz dim, <br />'Bout '_trustin' Love and Heav'n above_, sence Lide married _him_!'<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-lide-married-him/
