Who, spite your verbal maulings,
Has triumphed! need I add he is
‘A certain Jesse Collings?’”
“Collings?” the G. O. M. replied,
As he his brows knit sore,
“Oh, Jesse Collings; yes, I may
Have heard the name before.”
“But,” he went on—and he to keep
His temper much did strive—
“You said that you were seven, but you