You wish at last, to end the passage,

That you were dead, and in your sassage!"

"Yes! that's a miss from end to end!

But, zounds! you draw so well, my friend,

You've made me shiver, skin and gristle,

As if I heard my master's whistle!

Though how you came to learn the knack—

I thought your Squire was quite a crack!"

"And so he is!—He always hits—

And sometimes hard, and all to bits.