Dan Webster and Don C. Cameron, History of the First Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery (1907), p. 26 [ref. to 1862]:

“Sam McPhail…had seen service in the Mexican War and knew what military service meant. He was also a lawyer and could also advise as to the legal aspect of matters in general. It is safe to say that no man was more popular with the men than he. In all their sport he took an interest, and when it came to story-telling and singing 'The Rat Catcher's Daughter' he was accorded the ‘whole bakery.’”

(He didn't just 'take the cake.'")