Exclaiming, “I’m behind the age!”
He kicked the dummy in his rage.
“What’s this—the bells don’t jingle!”
And sure enough the bells were dumb.
Deftly inserted chewing gum
Had stopped their tingle-tingle.
IX
“Ho! ho!” he laughed, “’tis plain to see
New York is too advanced for me.
I should have stayed in Hades;