Bus and I, we are kinsfolk, you see;—

Bus shall have sugar to-morrow——! The beast!

The whole cargo on top of me! Ugh, how disgusting!—

Or perhaps it was food! ’Twas in taste—indefinable;

And taste’s for the most part a matter of habit.

What thinker is it who somewhere says:

You must spit and trust to the force of habit?—

Now here come the small-fry!

[Hits and slashes around him.

It’s really too bad