A grave old gentlemanly kind of Urban,—

The piteous tale of Jeremiah moulded,

And then unfolded,

By way of climax, Mrs. Davy’s turban;

He told how auctioneering Mr. Pidding

Knock’d down a lot without a bidding,—

How Mr. Miles, in fright, had giv’n his mare

The whip she wouldn’t bear,—

At Prospect House, how Doctor Oates, not Titus,

Danc’d like Saint Vitus,—