“In the days of my youth,” Father William replied—
(He was a dissembling old man),
“I put lumps of ice in my grandpapa’s boots,
And snowballed my aunt Mary Ann.”
“Go along! Father William.” the young man cried,
“You are trying it on, sir, to-day;
What makes your teeth chatter like bone castanettes?
Come, tell me the reason, I pray.”
“In the days of my youth,” Father William replied,
“I went to the North Pole with Parry;