To play tricks, let some method be mixed with your mirth.
As to burning down houses and ruining folks,
And flaring about like a Fire-king’s daughter,—
Allow me to say there’s no fun in such jokes,
’Twould far better have been
To have copied Undine,—
There’s no harm in a mixture of spirits and water!
Frank E. S.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The following legend is founded on a story current in the part of Herts where the scene is laid; the house was actually burnt down about ten years ago, having just been rendered habitable.