FIREWOOD RHYME FOR GYPSYS TO KEEP IN MIND

Firewoods

Beechwood fires are bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year;

Chestnut's only good they say,

If for long it's put away.

Birch and fir logs burn too fast,

Blaze up bright and do not last.

It is by the Irish said

Hawthorne bakes the best of bread.

Elmwood burns like churchyard mould

Even the very flames are cold.

Poplar gives a bitter smoke

Fills your eyes and makes you choke.

Applewood will scent a room

With an incense-like perfume.

Oaken logs if dry and old

Keep away the winter's cold.

But Ash wet, or Ash dry

A Queen will warm her slippers by.

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