That they might be somewhat safer

From the beastly little pipsqueaks,

From the most unpleasant whizzbangs,

From the great big five-point-niners,

And the crumps the eight-inch how. sends.

Then one day quoth Tiadatha,

“I am sick of leafy bowers,

I am sick of bivvy shelters;

They are too darned cold for one thing,

Much too narrow for another.