And said he’d found that Mr. Pod refused to make the jump
Till offered fifty dollars by the people of the town,
And that then he wouldn’t do it till he got the money down.
Last of all we heard the instance of Golias Purple Fife,
Who went into an awful well to save a fellow’s life,
A man who always spoke of Fife as of a blooming fool,
And who recently had done him blind in trading for a mule;
And on top of this, moreover, in addition, ’twas a fact,
He refused a quarter-dollar for this noble manly act,
And when they asked him what he’d drink, or if he’d take a bite,