And chaff a "Jackeroo." *

* See reference b.

I chiefly sticks to splittin' rails—

It's contract work, d'ye see;

I hates to ave a station-boss

A-overlookin' me.

I left my country for its good,

But not my own, I fear;

I makes big cheques a splittin' wood,

And knocks 'em down in beer.