Said modestly, next: 'Do ye see

I'm no poet, and none of the papers

Get writin's from fellows like me.

But I tell you, my heart rattles quicker,

When such wine as I've got here I swills;

It's an out-and-out beautiful liquor,--

God bless them Palatinate hills!'

Meanwhile, with a spear on his shoulder,

By the bridge went a fourth man along;

And waving his weapon, the holder