For my reward my few grey hairs to comb

With a red hot, sharp, electric rake, I’d say

“Why, this is just like home.”

THE CRUISE OF THE “PORKYPINE”

Being as I wuz gettin’

To be in the seer and yeller,

I didn’t expec to sail no more

But to stay at ’ome an’ meller;

When my ole Capting Mark

He bellers over the phone: