You’d hardly ever think, I say,

A-reasonin’ round the usual way,

That here, instead o’ things like these,

Was once a grove of maple trees,

An’ under yon electric lamp

We used to run a sugar camp?

One star-lit night—it seems, you know,

About a year or two ago,

But when you come to count it square

It’s fifty of ’em, I declare—