As she stood on the night of October the 8,
When she kicked at the lamp that set fire to the barn
That caused the Great Fire in Chicago!
THIS is the Statement the Company made:
(Directors and Officers thickly arrayed,
To soften the jar as they strike the up grade,
Where the millions of losses will have to be paid.)
"Our agency records, we deeply regret,
Are burned at Chicago, are out in the wet,
Or else there is, h—m, there is some slight impediment,