('LEWIS CARROLL')

N.B.—A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, which destroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb with its powerful beak and talons.

A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life, who supports himself by the use of the plough.—Johnson's Dictionary.

The rain was raining cheerfully,

As if it had been May;

The Senate-House appeared inside

Unusually gay;

And this was strange, because it was

A Viva-Voce day.

The men were sitting sulkily,

Their paper work was done;