The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught— That she wanted from others to snatch, and had snaught, Was the one that she now liked to scratch, and she scraught.
And Charley's warm love began freezing and froze, While he took to teasing, and cruelly tose The girl he had wished to be squeezing and squoze.
"Wretch!" he cried, when she threatened to leave him, and left, "How could you deceive me, as you have deceft?" And she answered, "I promised to cleave, and I've cleft!"
Plodding Changes.—Some of our plodding readers may like to peruse the following curious variations of the well-known line from Gray's "Elegy," "The ploughman homeward plods his weary way":
The weary ploughman homeward plods his way.
The weary ploughman plods his homeward way.
The homeward ploughman plods his weary way.
The homeward ploughman, weary, plods his way.
The homeward, weary, ploughman plods his way.
The weary, homeward ploughman plods his way.