Rhyme? and reason? . If he should say \How came you hereV (The way that you began, Sir,)In such a case your course is clear— On the bats back, my little dear /Is the appropriate answer. If after this he says no more, You d best perhaps curtail yourExertions—go and shake the door,And then, if he begins to snore, You 11 know the things a failure. I 2 PHANTASMA GORIA. By day, if he should be alone— At home or on a walk—You merely give a hollow groan,To indicate the kind of toneIn which you mean to talk. But if you find him with his friends, The thing is rather such a case success depend
Rhyme? and reason? . If he should say \How came you hereV (The way that you began, Sir,)In such a case your course is clear— On the bats back, my little dear /Is the appropriate answer. If after this he says no more, You d best perhaps curtail yourExertions—go and shake the door,And then, if he begins to snore, You 11 know the things a failure. I 2 PHANTASMA GORIA. By day, if he should be alone— At home or on a walk—You merely give a hollow groan,To indicate the kind of toneIn which you mean to talk. But if you find him with his friends, The thing is rather such a case success dependsOn picking up some candle-ends,Or butter, in the larder. With this you make a kind of slide (It answers best with suet),On which you must contrive to glide,And swing yourself from side to side—?One soon learns how to do it. The Second tells us what is right In ceremonious calls :— First burn a blue or crimson light(A thing I quite forgot to-night), Then scratch the door or walls!. AND SWING YOURSELF FROM SIDE TO SIDE 14 PHANTASMA GORIA. I said You 11 visit here no more, If you attempt the 11 have no bonfires on my floor—And, as for scratching at the door,, I d like to see you try ! The Third was written to protect The interests of the Victim,And tells us, as I recollect,To treat him with a grave respect,And fiot to contradict him!1 Thats plain, said I, as Tare and Tret, To any comprehension :I only wish some Ghosts I Ve metWould not so constantly forget The maxim that you mention ! Perhaps, he said, you first transgressed The laws of hospitality :All Ghosts instinctively detestThe Man that fails to treat his guest With proper cordiality. HYS FYVE RULES. J5
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