Cried the Mullet, “Oh! my gullet is so dry,
I could swallow half the hollow sea at least.”
The Frog-fish and the Dog-fish followed next,
And the Sturgeon was emergeon from his lair;
And the Herring by his bearing was perplexed,
But the Tinker, as a thinker, did not care.
The Cobbler,—such a gobbler as he was!
Why, the Blenny had not anything to eat!
And the Trunk-fish grew a drunk fish, just because
The Plaice there said the Dace there was so sweet.