Come sleep on my lap," said a maiden bright.

On his Roman nose a tear-drop come,

But still he remarked, as he upward clomb,

"Higher!"

"Look out for the branch of that sycamore-tree!

Dodge rolling stones, if any you see!"

Sayin' which the farmer went home to bed

And the singular voice replied overhead,

"Higher!"

About quarter past six the next afternoon,