Ma put my Penny-Dog Safe on the shelf, An’ left no one home but him, Me an’ myself; So I clumbed a big chair I pushed to the wall— But the Toy Penny-Dog Ain’t there at all! I went back to Dolly— An’ she ’uz gone too, An’ little Switch ’uz layin’ there;— An’ Ma says “Boo!”— An’ there she wuz a-peepin’ Through the front-room door: An’ I ain’t goin’ to be a bad |