In front or behind, above or below;

    For bonnets, mantillas, capes, collars and shawls;

    Dresses for breakfast, and dinners, and balls;

    Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;

    Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;

    Dresses in which to do nothing at all;

    Dresses for winter, spring, summer and fall;

    All of them different in color and shape,

    Silk, muslin and lace, velvet, satin and crape,

    Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,

    Quite as expensive and much more ethereal;

    In short, for all things that could ever be thought of,

    Or milliner,

     modiste

    or tradesman be bought of,

    From ten-thousand-franc robes to twenty-sous frills;

    In all quarters of Paris, and to every store,

    While M'Flimsey in vain stormed, scolded and swore,

    They footed the streets, and he footed the bills!

    The last trip, their goods shipped by the steamer

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