Kicked the wagon in bits and spun’round on

one ear.

And he rigged a contrivance by which ev’ry

morn

His old Brahma rooster descending for corn,

Stepped down on a lever that flipped up a lock

And down came the fodder in front of the

stock.

Still, these were but puerile notions beside

The thing that he hoped for—his spur and his