To think of you in town and murmur, "This is

A likely sort of tale."

To take, without one thought of evil plotting,

Even without one last protesting kick,

Thus kindly to somnambulistic trotting—

Oh, James, old pal, it was a dirty trick;

To show the yarns I'd told of you and written

(In letters home) were not entirely swank

At very least, I think, you might have bitten

The policeman at the Bank.