Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

by Holman Day

You stick your thumb where it don’t belong

And the world will yank it, good and strong.

Hindsight is clearer than foresight,

But you’d better ask foresight to give ye a

point;

Or, first thing you’re knowin’, Old World will be

goin’,

And he’ll laugh while you howl with your thumb

out of joint.