Without carin’ if I’d catch it,
I straightway took a hatchet,
And busted off the cover without openin’ my mouth;
And found a grand pianner
Which we’d followed for our banner
All the way from Massachusetts unto the sunny South!
Then I said, “I rather guess
I can see into this mess,
And explain the startlin’ error which has given you such shocks.
When that Boston fellow, he