'Hiram,' sez she, 'ef yeou'll stay to hum, merry some smart girl, an' kerry on the farm, I'll leave yeou the hull er my fortin.

"I'm a jolly, jolly tar, Wot has comed from afar, An' it's all for to seek my fortin" sang Buzzby.

Your'n is, to bild up a fortin, if Poor-houses for white laborers to live in is thicker in North Adams than goose pimples on a fever and ager sufferer's form.

" I stepped in a stairway to count my little fortin.

So I followed my husband's fortins, as nat'ral, through the world, till he was ordered to Ireland.