My dear mother is dead and gone years ago of course

My dear mother is dead and gone years ago of course

My dear mother is dead and gone years ago of course

My dear mother is dead and gone years ago of course, considering my age, you won’t marvel at that; and my young mistress is married long, long ago, and has a grown family, who are all as kind as kind can be to old Tom, as they facetiously call me. And so they were to my mother, who, I may tell you, was only three days in her last illness, and gave up the ghost on a file of old newspapers (than which nothing makes a better bed) and is buried under the old pear-tree.