St Nicholas [serial] . THE MORE THEY TRIED TO COME HIS WAYTHEIR LEGS WENT LEAPING T OTHER. Then laughed the Tailor merrily. Most noble sirs, i feggs,Ye are the biggest wooden-heads That ever stood on legs;For had ye but exhibited As legless twins, quoth he,; Ye would have made more moneyThan the double Siamee ! But he who saves such traitor knaves Saves vipers to destroyHimself; for at these words they sought To slay the Tailor when the Tailor mended them, The armor which they woreSo fooled him that he sewed their legs On after part before. And when the villains sprang at him,—Turned t
St Nicholas [serial] . THE MORE THEY TRIED TO COME HIS WAYTHEIR LEGS WENT LEAPING T OTHER. Then laughed the Tailor merrily. Most noble sirs, i feggs,Ye are the biggest wooden-heads That ever stood on legs;For had ye but exhibited As legless twins, quoth he,; Ye would have made more moneyThan the double Siamee ! But he who saves such traitor knaves Saves vipers to destroyHimself; for at these words they sought To slay the Tailor when the Tailor mended them, The armor which they woreSo fooled him that he sewed their legs On after part before. And when the villains sprang at him,—Turned this way and the other,— The more they tried to come his way Their legs went leaping t other.: Come on! cried heads, Come off!cried legs,As down the road they flew;And what became of those two knavesNobody ever knew. But the lovely Lily Maiden, To her everlasting joy,Was purchased for a dummy By the little Tailor Boy;And standeth in the window In the dingy little street,Among the ancient vestments Cut in fashions ob
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