Than a too-long-opened oyster,
Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous 50
For a plate of turtle green and glutinous),
‘Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
Anything like the sound of a rat
Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!’
‘Come in!’—the Mayor cried, looking bigger: 55
And in did come the strangest figure.
His queer long coat from heel to head
Was half of yellow and half of red;