“Which tooth?”
“The toof he were going to bite the goat with, a course!”
“And what became of the man?”
“Well, the lion springed at him. But it came so slow, it were three weeks in the air——”
“Did the man wait for it all that time?”
“Course he didn’t. He sold his house, and he packed up his things, while the lion were coming. And he went and he lived in another town. So the lion ate the wrong man.”
Lewis Carroll.
The Bluebottle Who Went Courting
A gay young Bluebottle went out courting.
And first he flew into the king’s palace to woo the king’s daughter.