To no one e'er play second fiddle.
Now, as for little trifling matters,
As breaking 'chayney' cups and platters,
Or letting a large punch-bowl fall,—
Why never vex yourself at all.
"You're not surpris'd, since it appears
As it's been crack'd for years and years;
And as you took it off the shelf,
It came in 'three halves' quite itself:
It's no use going into fits,