Like one of those great guns that end in buss.

“I’ll teach him to write ponds and tails to us!”

But while so menacing this-that-and-t’others,

His wife broke in with certain truths, as thus:

“Men are not women—fathers can’t be mothers,—

Females are females”—and a few such others.

So saying, with rough nudges, willy-nilly,

She hustled him outside the chamber-door,

Looking, it must be own’d, a little silly;

And then she did as the Carinthian boor