O. Henry Encore — Topical Verse

(Dramatis Personae: One singer, one baritone horn, one bass drum.

) There was a man in our town, And he was very lazy;

He made his wife do everything, Till she was almost crazy.

Although he was a Christian man, He made her come upstairs And wake him up to say "Amen!"

When she had said his prayers.

One night before he went to sleep He made her kneel and pray And when she finished, wake him up;

Then this good man did say: "Oh, Lord, please answer my wife's prayer."

And then to sleep he fell.

The Lord did, and the man awoke To find himself in ----.

_Baritone horns_ "Ta-ta-rum."

_Bass Drums_ "Boom."

(_Houston Daily Post_, Sunday morning, May 17, 1896. )