A point was mine if, at the start,

I guessed the way a yarn was tending;

Miss Dell's, if by consummate art

She failed to use the obvious ending.

The first two tales she won on; three

And four were mine; five hers; six, seven

And eight I got hands down; and she

Got square with nine and ten. Eleven

Is still unwritten, and I bide

Impatiently its birth, for that'll