The Ancient: “Built his nest with the birds of night.” No more of that!
Diversions of the Echo Club. By Bayard Taylor (John Camden Hotten, London.)
“The Ager.”
This clever parody, by Prof. J. P. Stelle, editor of the Progressive Farmer, and of the agricultural department of the Mobile Register, has been repeatedly published in United States newspapers, though generally in a mutilated form. The following is believed to be the correct version:—
Once upon an evening bleary,
While I sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine, thinking over
Things that passed in days of yore;
While I nodded, nearly sleeping,