And was not bigger much, if any,
He states, than puny “silver penny.”
’Twas then assail’d, with courage hearty,
By juggling wench of Perkins’ party,
And soon, to her beconjured eyes,
It seem’d a thousandth part its size.
“And now,” quoth she, “I scarce can view it,
These tractors are the things that do it;
Oh, la! I vow, it’s taken flight,
And vanish’d fairly out of sight.”