This is how it happened down in southwest Missouri...

Transcribed ver batim from...

The Lyon County Times

Silver City, Nevada

September 15, 1874

 He found a rope, and picked it up,
And with it walked away.
It happened that, to t'other end,
A horse was hitched, they say.

They found a tree, and tied the rope
Unto a swinging limb.
It happened that the other end
Was somehow hitched to him.

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