Rhyme? and reason? . HE GOES ABOIT AND PITS ON FOLK 4C PHANTASMA GORIA. The day he was elected Mayor I k?iow that every Sprite meantTo vote for me, but did not dare-He was so frantic with despairAnd furious with w& *»*? When it was over, for a whim, He ran to tell the Kins:;And being the reverse of slim, B YCKERMENT. _j. r A two-mile trot was not for himA very easy thing. So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot,And he was over twenty stone),The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot. Twas a great liberty to take ! (I fired up like a rocket). He did it j
Rhyme? and reason? . HE GOES ABOIT AND PITS ON FOLK 4C PHANTASMA GORIA. The day he was elected Mayor I k?iow that every Sprite meantTo vote for me, but did not dare-He was so frantic with despairAnd furious with w& *»*? When it was over, for a whim, He ran to tell the Kins:;And being the reverse of slim, B YCKERMENT. _j. r A two-mile trot was not for himA very easy thing. So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot,And he was over twenty stone),The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot. Twas a great liberty to take ! (I fired up like a rocket). He did it just for punnings sake :The man, says Johnson, that would make A pun, would pick a pocket! A man, said he, is not a King. I argued for a while,And did my best to prove the thing-The Phantom merely listening With a contemptuous smile. At last, when, breath and patience spent, I had recourse to smoking— Your aim,11 he said, is excellent: c- 42 PIT ANT A SMA GORIA. But —when you call it a?-gw/ient—Of course youre only joking?>;
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