“——Your souls? O gholes,

You queer little drolls!

Do you mean——?” “Good Gaffer, do aid us with speed,

For our time, like our stature, is short indeed!

And a very long way we have to go,

Eight or ten thousand miles or so,

Hither and thither, and to and fro;

With our pots and pans,

And little gold cans;

But our light caravans