AFTER SOUTHEY

THE OLD MAN'S COLD AND HOW
HE GOT IT

(By Northey-Southey-Eastey-Westey)

"YOU are cold, Father William," the young man cried,

"You shake and you shiver, I say;

You've a cold, Father William, your nose it is red,

Now tell me the reason, I pray."

"In the days of my youth," Father William replied—

(He was a dissembling old man)

"I put lumps of ice in my grandpapa's boots,