“I just propose that first of all I land—

As all of us have done—at the old Havanna.

Adventures there do gin’rally abound,

The natives being all sus-ceptive creeters;

For if romance upon this airth is found,

It sartinly is ’mong the senoritas.

Though he who of ’em would advantage take,

Must be on hand and al’ays wide awake:

Quien el diablo ha de engañar

Mañana ha bien de levantar.”