('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;