Kept up such a rapping on Ozy’s old farm

That the auctioneer nigh had a kink in his

arm—

And it happened at last,’long o’ Thanksgiving

time,

Old Ozy was stripped to his very last dime.

And he said to his helpmeet: “Poor mummy,

I van

I guess them ’ere critters have got all they can.

For they’ve sued off the stock till the barns