puffed

Of a warm fancy does their minds engage,

Puffed with vain pride, presume they understand,

And boldly take the trumpet in their hand:

The sound o' talkin' reached our ears, and voices laffin' lightly.

It puffed us up so full an' big 'at I 'll jest bet a dollar,

There wa'n't a feller there but felt the strain upon his collar.

And all go back to winter but the road.

Next day the scene was piled and puffed and dead.

The grass lay flattened under one great tread.

The doctor put him in the dark of ether.

He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.

And then--the watcher at his pulse took fright.

The doctor put him in the dark of ether.

He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.

And then—-the watcher at his pulse took fright.

Acrid with the stench of dried sweat were your clothes, and your long slick

oily black hair, and your hands were puffed and creased, soft and unhealthily

white from the hot steaming dishwater.

With triangular scorch marks from ironing tiny ruchings and puffed sleeves.

When the sporty wife and her doctor husband went on one of their cruises