His Crazy-Bone
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HIS CRAZY-BONE
The man that struck his crazy-bone, All suddenly jerked up one foot And hopped three vivid hops, and put His elbow straight before him—then Flashed white as pallid Parian stone, And clinched his eyes, and hopped again. He spake no word—he made no moan— He muttered no invective—but Just gripped his eyelids tighter shut, And as the world whizzed past him then, He only knew his crazy-bone Was stricken—so—he hopped again.