THE DISAPPOINTED BAT
A bat played a hand organ out in the street,
And carried a sign “I AM BLIND”;
But though all his music was joyous and sweet,
His hearers, he thought, were unkind;
For no-one who passed dropped a coin in his hat,
But each said “Why of course; he’s as blind as a bat.”
When Billy Wilson swimming went,
It took him half a day
To reach the lake because, you see,
It was so far away.
And so, to stop this loss of time,
When next he went to swim
He tied a string around the lake,
And pulled it home with him.