Charles Follen Adams,
Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems…
(1910)
“ I knew him passing well,— A shoemaker in Natick, Which is oftentimes called — well- Of course you've heard the story; So I will not stop to tell. He was the hardest drinker For many miles around; Though, as a waggish chap remarked, "Hard drinker! I'll be bound He drinks about as easy As any man I've found!" ”
