THE YANKEE CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.

_For the Table Book._

A Pat--an odd joker--and Yankee more sly,

Once riding together, a gallows pass’d by:

Said the Yankee to Pat, “If I don’t make too free,

Give that gallows its due, pray where then would you be?”

“Why honey,” said Pat, “faith that’s easily known

I’d be riding to town--by myself--all alone.”