And Wasn't She a Tidy One

DESCRIPTION: "I married me a wife, and 'who cares,' said I." She is well-bred and attractive -- and hopeless about the house; she puts soap in the pudding, and salt in the tea. She is distracted by novels. He warns against such a wife -- and against novels
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1819 (source: Steve Gardham's Dungheap notes to "Robin-a-thrush")
KEYWORDS: husband wife clothes food warning | novels
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, pp. 53-54, "And Wasn't That a Tidy One" (1 excerpt)
Roud #7193
File: JESU053

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