(SHAKESPEARE)

That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,)

Walking between the garden and the barn,

Reuben, all armed; a certain aim he took

At a young chicken, standing by a post,

And loosed his bullet smartly from his gun,

As he would kill a hundred thousand hens.

But I might see young Reuben's fiery shot

Lodged in the chaste board of the garden fence,

And the domesticated fowl passed on,