Like a scarecrow, all in rags:

It made me crow to see his old duds

All abroad in the wind, like flags;—

So up he came to the timber's foot

And pitch'd down his greasy bags.—

III.

Good Lord! how blythe the old beggar was!

At pulling out his scraps,—

The very sight of his broken orts

Made a work in his wrinkled chaps: