But picture such a nondescript I know I never can.

It had a gray old head upon the shoulders of a child;

One eye was small and wicked, and the other large and wild.

Its hands, its feet, its teeth, its ears, I solemnly declare,

You couldn’t pick out two of them that matched to make a pair!

One foot was slim and dainty, and the other huge and flat,

And it had a woman’s wig on underneath a man’s cocked hat;

A waistcoat like George Washington’s, a blazer and a train,

That Spriggins knew had once belonged to his departed Jane!

He sank upon his bonded knees, with terror quite unmanned;