And one may doubt quite reasonably whether

He has a mouth,

Seeing his head and tail are joined together.

Behold him,—there he is, John, in the South.”

John look’d up with his portentous eyes,

Each rolling like a marble in its socket.

At last the fiery tad-pole spies,

And, full of Vauxhall reminiscence, cries,

“A rare good rocket!”

“A what! A rocket, John! Far from it!