I fancy a friend stands whistling all in white

Blithe as a boblink, and he's dead I learn.

I take dislike to a dog my favorite long,

And sell him; he goes mad next week and snaps.

I guess that stranger will turn up to-day

I have not seen these three years; there 's his knock.

I wager "sixty peaches on that tree!"—

That I pick up a dollar in my walk,

That your wife's brother's cousin's name was George—

And win on all points. Oh, you wince at this?