But they will send that fifty back, and by to-morrow’s train——”

“That note,” out cried the constable, “you’ll never see again.”

“And that,” exclaimed the sweet old man, “I hope I never may,

Because I do not care a cuss how far it keeps away;

For if I’m a judge of money, and I reether think I am,

The one I shoved was never worth a continental dam.

“They hev wandered with their sorrers into the sunny South,

They hev got uncommon swallows and an extry lot of mouth.

In the next train to the North’ard I expect to widely roam,

And if any come inquirin’, jist say I ain’t at home.”