Of asinine new milk,

Robbing a shaggy suckling of a foal

Which got proportionably spare and skinny—

Meanwhile the neighbors cried "Poor Mary Ann!

She can't get over it! she never can!"

When lo! to prove each prophet was a ninny

The one that died was the poor wet-nurse Jenny.

To aggravate the case,

There were but two grown donkeys in the place;

And most unluckily for Eve's sick daughter,