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-