The Lord ever made, under His kind sky,

Bob Cooning!

Bob Cooning the giant was only a boy,

Like Harry or Tom or Jim or Dick,

But one that the other boys couldn’t lick.

Never a clean fair fight for Bob

As boy to boy. “That’s a dirty trick—

To hit a fellow just half your size!”

I’ve seen the tears in Bob’s big blue eyes.

“Give me a man to fight!” he’d say,