His name—they called it Brimblecomb;
He stole the tailor’s needle and shears,
But couldn’t make the thimble come.”
Butler’s facility in overcoming stubborn words is amusing. For instance:—
There was an ancient sage philosopher,
Who had read Alexander Ross over.
Coleridge, on the eve of his departure from Göttingen, being requested by a student of the same class in the university to write in his Stammbuch, or album, complied as follows:—
We both attended the same college,
Where sheets of paper we did blur many;
And now we’re going to sport our knowledge,