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Bingo, / B‑I‑N‑G‑O, / And yey yclept him lyttel Bingo. / Ye Franchelyn's wyfe brewed nutte-brown ayle, / And he yclept ytte rare-goode Stingo, / S‑T‑I‑N‑G‑O, / And he yclept ytte rare goode Stingo. / Now ys not this a prettye rhyme, / I thynke ytte ys bye Jingo, / J‑I‑N‑G‑O, / I thynke ytte ys bye Jingo. "
It was early in November, 1882, and the Manitoba winter had just set in. I was tilting back in my chair for a few lazy moments after breakfast, idly alternating my gaze from the one windowpane of our shanty, through which was framed a bit of the prairie and the end of our cowshed, to the old rhyme of the "Franckelyn's Dogge" pinned on the logs near by. But the dreamy mixture of rhyme and view was quickly dispelled by the sight of a large gray animal dashing across the prairie into the cowshed, with a smaller black and white animal in hot pursuit.