This day’s the eleventh,

It is not the seventh,

But they seem to be keeping it hole-y.

CANVASSING A BURROW—“COME TO THE POLE.”

For a mallard I’ve waded the marsh,

And haunted each pool, and each lake—oh!

Mine is not the luck,

To obtain thee, O Duck,

Or to doom thee, O Drake, like a Draco!