As western travellers may oft have seen,—

A little house some years ago there stood,

A minikin abode;

And built like Mr. Birkbeck's, all of wood:

The walls of white, the window-shutters green,—

Four wheels it had at North, South, East, and West

(Though now at rest),

On which it used to wander to and fro,

Because its master ne'er maintained a rider,

Like those who trade in Paternoster Row;