That “only just a day or two

Had wrought this wondrous change!”

Now (which augmented Captain’s cares)

He’d left at home the “lines”

Which told where liv’d those Londoners—

Advent’rers in the mines. * * *

Fast flew the train, and Joe got home,

Where flock’d his friends to see

(As customary in the town),

And list’ attentively