She then wrote Wendell Phillips asking if any funds were available from the Philadelphia convention, and he replied "no," but sent a personal check for $50.

With this money in her pocket, and without the promise of another dollar, she started out alone, at the beginning of winter, to canvass the great State of New York.
[Footnote 19: At the top of their voices they shouted such doggerel as this: "Heigh ho, Thro' sleet and snow, Mrs.Bloomer's all the go.
Twenty tailors take the stitches, Plenty of women wear the breeches, Heigh ho, Carrion crow!" And this: "Gibbery, gibbery gab, The women had a confab And demanded the rights To wear the tights.
Gibbery, gibbery gab." */].