Gave it a jerk that almost jerk’d it down.
He waited full two minutes; no one came;
He waited full two minutes more; and then,—
Says Toby, “if he’s deaf, I’m not to blame;
I’ll pull it for the gentleman again.”
But the first peal woke Isaac in a fright,
Who, quick as lightning, popping up his head,
Sat on his head’s Antipodes, in bed,—
Pale as a parsnip,—bolt upright.