THE SWITCH FOR HIRAM BROWN

That Hiram Brown he come to school and

brung in seven ticks;

He picked them off his father’s sheep—jes’ like

his dratted tricks!

One day that critter put a toad right in our

teacher’s chair,

She squatted down—and then got up! And

warn’t she mad for fair?

He brung in crawly bugs and things, a mouse