Explore "When Dacey Rode the Mule" by Andrew Barton Paterson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
'Twas to a small, up-country town, / When we were boys at school, / There came a circus with a clown, / Likewise a bucking mule. / The clown announced a scheme they had / Spectators for to bring -- / They'd give a crown to any lad / Who'd ride him round the ring.
And, gentle reader, do not scoff / Nor think a man a fool -- / To buck a porous-plaster off / Was pastime to that mule.