And if I may venture to say so,

You have influenza most awfully bad,

Come, why do you wheeze in that way so?

In the days of my youth, father William replied,

I found it uncommonly easy

To sit on the ice when I wanted to skate,

’Tis hence that I now am so wheezy.

You seem cold, father William, the young man cried,

And I see you incessantly shiver;

Do you think, aged pal, such a jellyish trick