Deportmental ditties : and other verses . .I censure the pedestrian classesWho hold their noses as one passes. Old yokels, deaf and nearly blind, Plod stolidly along;When I come scorching up behind,They pay no heed, they do not mind My hootings loud and long;But if I squash them, flat as bloaters,Their next-of-kin disparage motors! But when I walk upon the road,While cars rush to and fro, I note how much they incommode The residents of each abodeWithin a mile or so; My tender heart in anguish sickens To see them puncture dogs or On the Road And \\ Ik ii ! Ik \ , I he I idcwni
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . .I censure the pedestrian classesWho hold their noses as one passes. Old yokels, deaf and nearly blind, Plod stolidly along;When I come scorching up behind,They pay no heed, they do not mind My hootings loud and long;But if I squash them, flat as bloaters,Their next-of-kin disparage motors! But when I walk upon the road,While cars rush to and fro, I note how much they incommode The residents of each abodeWithin a mile or so; My tender heart in anguish sickens To see them puncture dogs or On the Road And \\ Ik ii ! Ik \ , I he I idcwnii 11) clouds of whirling du t,I leap upon a window-LOr scramble through a quicksel bed Willi ill-conci aled disgu \iI dread fco sec them skid up on IThe kerb, and immolate poor Ponto. MORAL. Of ye who walk the road like slugs,No more impede your betters ! Chauffeurs, desist from being Thugs! Kind hearts are more than sparking-plugs,And Tact than carburettors ! Live and let live, my bounding brothers, And recollect that there are others !. 61 No. XIII.—FORMS OF ADDRESS What symptoms of panic the bourgeois evinces On being presented to Bishops and Princes!His throat seems afflicted with curious dryness,As, murmuring vaguely Your Grace or Your Highness, His knees knock together, he shows the white feather, And talks in an agonised way of the oh! how he wishes in youth he had studiedThe question of how to address the blueblooded !
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