They frequent learn a heap of things besides 'Annie Laurie'-- and besides singin'.

Oh, I can see the Yankee Dago lady right now.

Fancy works installed in the roof of her mouth, adjacent and adjoinin' to her tongue, teeth, and other vocal outfit.
"Now, this here Georgia girl, accordin' to all stories, has sung herself into about a quarter of a million dollars and four or five different husbands with that voice of hers; and that same 'Annie Laurie' song was largely responsible.

Now, why, _why_, couldn't she have taken a fellow of her size, and not gone and made trouble for Tom Osby?
It wasn't fair play.
"Now, Tom, he sits humped over in there, a-lookin' in that horn.

What does he see?
Madame Donatelli?
Does he see her show her teeth and bat her eyes when she's fetchin' one of them hand-curled trills of hers?
Nay, nay.