His Binger-Bopper song, but cut it short.

His wits were working like a brewer's wort

Until among them came the vision gleaming

Of Ern with bloody nose and Anna screaming.

'That's what I'll do,' he muttered; 'knock him out,

And kick his face in with a running jump.

I'll not have dazzled eyes this second bout,

And she can wash the fragments under pump.'

It was his ace; but Death had played a trump.

Death the blind beggar chuckled, nodding dumb,