Tommy. So can I. (Continues his recitation.)

His brother David was a tall,

Good-looking chap, and that was all,

One of your great big nothings, as they say

Out in Rhode Island, picking up old jokes,

And cracking them on other folks.

Well, David undertook one night to play

The Ghost, and frighten Abel, who,

He knew,

Would be returning from a journey through