Up an’ down the city street,
Josiah told Symanthy
That he guessed they’d have a treat:
So they went an’ got some oysters—
What they never yet had eat,
’Pears to me!
Then Josiah, sort o’ thinkin’,
Said: “I thought they had a shell;
What the slipp’ry things resemble
I’ll be switched if I can tell;