The case of Dayball Carter, a man in Tennessee,
Who plunged into a burning store as if his doom had come,
But emergéd with an infant—and a gallon jug of rum.
But the club could nowise settle, admitting all the fact,
If the baby or the liquor had inspired the noble act,
For ’twas proved he kept the liquor while he let the infant go,
So the case of Mr. Carter was adjourned in dubio.
Then the Secretary read us, in very moving tones,
The wondrous case of courage of General Pompey Jones,
Who found a hydrophobic dog upon a neighbour’s farm,