That ate the peach on the garden wall.

No Times nor Punch, 'tis very strange;

Unlifted is the iron latch;

Of papers he's without the batch

That gives his days their only change.

At first he only said, "Oh deary!

The post is late," he said;

"Of waiting I am rather weary,

I would my Punch I'd read."

About the middle of the day