[THE BOASTING TRAVELLER.]

A fellow who abroad had been,

Told marvels he had done and seen:

"When resident at Rhodes," he said,

"A leap of twenty yards he made

Over a barrier ten feet high;

A dozen witnesses were by."

"Come on," says one, at the same table,

"Yon ditch and fence to o'erleap you're able.

They're not, by much, so high or wide;