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!