But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

He contributed travel writing and comic writing to The Literary World a series on 'The Cities of Art and the Early Artists' to the Art Union Bulletin and also wrote for the Democratic Review. Marshall.

William Allen Butler (February 20 1825 Albany New York – September 9 1902) was an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires.