Back Jack shrank in alarm: with fat cheeks peony-bulbous,

Ladle in hand, she stood, and spake in a tone of amuse-

ment: .

"Oh! what a cramp'd-up, small, unsesquipedalian object!"

Then from afar came steps, heavy tramps, as a pavior

hamm'ring;

Out of her huge moon-cheeks the redundant peony faded,

Jack's lank hair she grabb'd, and, looking sad resolution,

Popt him aghast in among her saucepans' grimy recesses.

Then strode in, with a loud heavy-booted thunder of heel-