Run swifter than man’s!”
III
“Well, well, you may come!” said the Ferryman, affably;
“Patrick, turn out, and get ready the barge!”
Then again to the Little Folk—“Though you seem laughably
Small, I don’t mind, if your coppers be large.”
Oh, dear! what a rushing, what pushing, what crushing
(The watermen making vain efforts at hushing
The hubbub the while) there followed these words!
What clapping of boards!