I'm sick, and I'm sorry, and sore;

O'er planks and o'er ladders I'm tumbling,

And get my great-coat painted o'er.

To myself I can scarcely help mumbling—

Spring Cleaning's a terrible bore!


[TAKEN IN TOW.]

How blithely the beauties break into a canter,

And over the sward how their feet pit-a-pat!