< Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems
REPARTEE.
- One Mr. B--
- A joker he,
- While in a jovial mood,
- Tried to explain
- To neighbor N
- A joke which he thought good.
- His hearer, Neff,
- Was very deaf,
- And couldn't catch the joke;
- Whereat B smiled,
- Though slightly "riled,"
- And thus to him he spoke: —
- "'Tis plain to me
- As A B C,
- My dear friend, Mr. Neff!"
- "Oh, yes! but then,"
- Says Mr. N ,
- "You know I'm D E F!"
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