. Overheard in a garden. Well, one nightA burglar came, and at the sight,The rhymester took a fearful only avenue for flightWas up the chimney; here he climbedUntil he stuck, and then he rhymedAs follows: — ^ Goodness gracious me /I m stuck as tight as tight can be /Oh, dear, I^m in an awful cannot budge to left or right,Or up or down this awful chimney / *Then he was stuck ; had he said Jimmny! It would have saved him many a no! he could not stoop to vain he writhed and racked his brainFor rhymes to ^ \^/ / fl

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