Betty Stoelting

And about the family in the house adjacent, He grew to feel — well — quite complacent; Like a sort of lord, a spider of means, who could afford To part with a part of his great estate — So Sam came to love instead of hate. And if, like Wonderland's Duchess, you like a moral, Here's one with which you cannot quarrel: Sam SEEMS to prove, at least to me, That it pays to give in gracefully!