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NOBODY took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb, / All eager to sell her honey and apples and bunches of garden herb; / And if she had offered to give her wares and herself with them too that day, / I doubt if a soul would have cared to take a bargain so choice away.
But chancing to trace her sunburnt grace that morning as I passed nigh, / I went and I said "Poor maidy dear! -and will none of the people buy? " / And so it began; and soon we knew what the end of it all must be, / And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me.