The next step in the scam was the following day,
Barb, Clarence’s accomplice, went to where the Jewellers lay.
Following the very same pattern now,
She viewed all their rings within an hour.
Finally, said she, “None of these do I like today”,
“So I’ll ask you to put them all away”.
She then got up and left pretty quick,
But not before she had pulled off her trick,
Of palming the ring from below the chair,
That tricky Clarence had put there!
Out of the store, she was in a trice,
Thinking that it had all been quite nice.
Around the corner Clarence she met,
“Did all go to plan?” She said, “Yes, don’t fret”.
And so it seems that they got clean away,
With a five thousand dollar ring for which they didn’t pay.
But remember “Crime doesn’t pay” is still in vogue,
If one may be tempted to be a rogue.
So sooner or later within the tricks of the trade,
An enormous mistake will surely be made.
And that is when Constable Clod will say,
“You’re bang to rights!” that very day.