People may say it’s all absurd,
And yet it holds as I averred,
And bein’ a fact it’s on recórd,
Unless the best of men have erred,
As you may truly have inferred,
In which observers have concurred:
There’s no good luck with a Finn on board.
“That story of the Finn,” said one to Brown,
“Is of the kind which hev been salted down,
Which is the reason, I suppose, why you