A Wise Joker

There is a man in our town,

     And he is wondrous wise;

And all the stylish women folk,

     Just praise him to the skies.

This man he is a humorist,

     But wise for all of that;

He’s never written any joke

     Upon the theatre hat.

March 8, 1895

Pub. in Boston Courier,

March 31, 1895