Take equal parts of dust and slime.

And there you have my mortar."

"I build my wall with many a trick,

So shrewd as to astound one;

With here and there a rotten brick,

And here and there a sound one."

The Artful Plumber resumes his plaint;

"The sewer-pipe I love to lay,

Connecting with the cistern;

And where's the law that dares to say,