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by Unknown

Just out in the kitchen, to see what was there,

And was scared to behold a great grizzly bear.

So he screamed in alarm to his slumbering frow,

“Thar’s a bar in the kitchen as big’s a cow!”

“A what?” “Why, a bar!” “Well, murder him, then!”

“Yes, Betty, I will, if you’ll first venture in.”

So Betty leaped up, and the poker she seized,

While her man shut the door, and against it he squeezed.

As Betty then laid on the grizzly her blows,

Now on his forehead, and now on his nose,