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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
"Then Stubbs, he murmured, 'Not but what
Civility is right and fit;
Yet, arter all, a man hev got
To think about hisself a bit-
I seems to think we ought to keep
This place from tumblin' in a heap.'
Civility is right and fit;
Yet, arter all, a man hev got
To think about hisself a bit-
I seems to think we ought to keep
This place from tumblin' in a heap.'
"'Old Stubbs,' says me, 'we do believe
As your remarks is rightly meant;
But shall we up and go and grieve
That pleasant-spoken artist gent?
Why, if so be we was to take
An' do this thing, his 'eart would break!'
As your remarks is rightly meant;
But shall we up and go and grieve
That pleasant-spoken artist gent?
Why, if so be we was to take
An' do this thing, his 'eart would break!'
"And so it comes to pass that what
Were Little-Pigley-in-the-Pound
Is jest a mere promiscu's lot
O' little heaps about the ground—
There's some among us as repent
They ever seed that artist gent!"
Were Little-Pigley-in-the-Pound
Is jest a mere promiscu's lot
O' little heaps about the ground—
There's some among us as repent
They ever seed that artist gent!"
J. F. Sullivan.
