So we kill them off—and our tombstones show it—
Before they arrive at forty-two.”
Here the driver gave a long cher—rup!
And gazed at the Yankee, dark and wan,
As if he had woke the wrong passenger up
While calmly Professor Bangs went on:
“In walking up and down Broadway,
Large mourning sign-boards at times appear
With this inscription in letters grey—
‘Elderly persons extinguished here.’