But I reckin’ I’ll giv’ ’em an Augerville show.”
Abbott B. Appleton “barked” at the fair
(Sing sakes! how the people they did gather),
And his cross-the-lot voice it did bellow and
blare
Till it seemed that his lungs were of leather.
He said that he had there inside of his pen
Most singular fowl ever heard of by men:
“The Giant Americanized Cock-a-too,”
With his feathers, some red and some white,