Or The Wonderful “One-Hoss-Shay.”

A LOGICAL STORY.

|Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay,

That was built in such a logical way?

It ran a hundred years to a day,

And then, of a sudden, it--ah, but stay,

I'll tell you what happened without delay.=

Scaring the parson into fits,

Frightening people out of their wits,--

Have you ever heard of that, I say?=

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.

Georgius Secundus was then alive,--

Snuffy old drone from the German hive!

That was the year when Lisbon-town

Saw the earth open and gulp her down,

And Braddock's army was done so brown,

Left without a scalp to its crown.=