Charles Hoy Fort, "Ructions" (short story ca.1906) [takes place in N.Y.C.]:

" 'Bryan O'Lynn, his wife and wife's mother, all went over the bridge together.' Mary Ann Thornton capering on a table, screeching, 'Bryan fell out and his wife fell in! `She's gone to the divil!' said Bryan O'Lynn!'

        "Cousin Mary Ellen, lively as anybody, sour jeering side of her mouth tucked away and smiling side dominating, taking up the next stanza:

'Oh, Bryan O'Lynn had no breeches to wear!
Bought a sheep's skin and made him a pair;
Fleshy side out and woolly side in--
"They itch like the divil!" said Bryan O'Lynn.' "

[Fort is better known as an indefatigable collector of weird events; see "The Book of The Damned" and its sequels.]