Old Hagenschmit, behind his house,
    His new Dutch pipe was trying,
When—bing! the bullet smashed the bowl
    And sent the pieces flying!

"Who put dot bombshell in my pipe?"
    Exclaimed the startled smoker,
"If I could git my hands on him,
    Dere would be vone less joker!"

Peter Newell, The Hole Book, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1908, plate 8.

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