Had the rain kept away, or their speed had been less,
They ne’er would have tumbled at all,
But the figure that’s cut without skill or address,
May be followed perhaps by a fall.
A. W. Mackenzie
(Author of Idyls of the Rink.)
From Mirth, edited by H. J. Byron. May 1878.
The Rose and the Buckets.
One day, old George Rose, in a fit of finance