I go into the smoking car, and remark I never smoke,

And when the weeds are all put out, I explain it’s all a joke,

You see, I try to make myself as pleasant as I can,

Yet! Everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man,

And I can’t think why.

And yet, with all my little whims I really must decline

To say a single word against the fav’rite Alton Line.

To speak in praise of anything goes hard against the grain,

But I really never was upon such a perfect train.

I had dinner in a dining car, which every want could fill,