THE YANKEE CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.
For the Table Book.
A Pat—an odd joker—and Yankee more sly,
Once riding together, a gallows pass’d by:
Said the Yankee to Pat, “If I don’t make too free,
Give that gallows its due, pray where then would you be?”
“Why honey,” said Pat, “faith that’s easily known
I’d be riding to town—by myself—all alone.”
Sam Sam’s Son