John Byrom, The Reciter (1840s)
“ And begg'd to know if true what he had heard--- 'Did you Sir, throw up a black crow?' 'Not I,' 'Bless me, how people propagate a lie! Black crows have been thrown up, three, two, and one And here I find all comes at last to none! Did you say nothing of a crow at all?' 'Crow! crow! ”
