✦ A Poem Served Instead of an Ad ✦
Hell-to-split over the prairie!
I was almost froze with skeer;
But we rousted up some torches,
And sarched for 'em far and near.
At last we struck hosses and wagon,
Snowed under a soft white mound,
Upsot, dead beat, but of little Gabe
No hide nor hair was found.
The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. Carolyn Wells (Public Domain)