First “Jack” and “Mac,” then old “Skeff” and “Lope”

And “Jawn” and rare “Doc” and “Bill,”

Also “Mont” and “Cook,” or some “also ran brows,”

And then you can have your fill

Of talk that’s light and a good heartening up

And kindly repartee,

In the night you spend in parry and tierce

At the sign of the “Old P. M. C.”

(Philadelphia Press, July 16, 1911).