With this curious but entirely characteristic reflection on the dispensations of Providence, Hiram tossed away his cigar butt and answered the supper call of Aunt Rhoda.
CHAPTER XVI—THE DISAPPOINTING “TEST CASE” OF SUMNER BADGER,
A “SAMPLE CITIZEN” OF PALERMO
There once was a Quaker, Orasmus Nute,
With a physog. as stiff as a cowhide boot,
And he skippered a ship from Georgetown, Maine,
In the ’way back days of the pirates’ reign.
And the story I tell it has to do