Who all the night until morning came

Kept boring into me!

It wore me down to a skeleton

In the District hight E. C.

From that hour I sought my bed—eleven—

Till daylight he tortured me.

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know

In that District named E. C.)

I so often jumped out of my bed by night

Willing the killing of Cannibal Flea.