OTTO AND HIS AUTO.
'Tis strange how fashion makes us change the objects we admire; We used to sing the tireless steed, but now the steedless tire. ... So Otto bought an auto, bo as not to be antique, But the thing was autocratic, As well as automsSc, And the auto wouldn't onto as it ought to, so to speak. He thought to get an auto-operator for the work, And first he tried a circus man and then he tried a Turk, . . For he knew the circus man drove ntty horses with success, And if a man be shifty Enough to manage fiftj-, It's'palpable enough he ought to manage one home-less. As for the Turk, 'tis also plain, deny it if you can, He ought to run an auto, since a Turk s an Ottomtn; 'Twas all no use, so Otto moved to Alabama, purely, That he might say: "I'm Otto, From Mobile, and my motto: ' A Mobile Otto ought to run an automobile surely.'" Then Otto sought to auto on the auto as he ought to, But the auto sought to auto as Otto never thought to; So Otto, he got, hot, oh, very hot! as he ouiht not to, And Otto said : " This auto ought to auto, and it's got to." And Otto fought the auto, and the auto it fought Otto, Till the auto also got too hot to auto as it ought to. And then, Great Scott! the auto shot to heaven—so did Of to— Where Otto's auto autos now as Ottos auto ought to.
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Evening Star, Issue 11672, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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258OTTO AND HIS AUTO. Evening Star, Issue 11672, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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