Wonder if he’ll trouble us,
Whip up you or I!
When his tail is over,
Then begin to crow;
Four-and-twenty doctors,
Tell us all you know!”
Another of the circle was directed to treat of the Wood Fire in the measure of Tennyson’s “May Queen.” The result was the following:
“If you’re snapping, snap out wisely, snap out wisely, burning wood!
You would not snap so wildly if your drying had been good.
Nor had I, sitting near you with the hearth-brush in my hand,