My wrath I tried to smother.
He answered—“On one side are six,
And only five on t’other.”
“Two of the five,” I pointed out,
“Must weigh a ton between ’em;
Two others have such tattered garbs
As barely serve to screen ’em.”
Then did the little “Cad” rejoin,
“Yet they are only five;
If you’re a-coming by this ’bus,