free.”
But the man who was running the charity
game
Informed him it didn’t work always the same,
And Abbott B. Appleton got for his ten
A smile—and the man didn’t play it again.
Then Abbott, in order to make himself square,
Got after the rest of the snides at the fair.
He hunted the pea, but he never could tell
When “the darned little critter” was under