What shape had he?” “An ass.” “Good father, nay!—
It was your shadow frightened you to-day!”
Professor Ardei’s ashes in this urn
Repose. Dame Nature intended him to teach——
So he was never able aught to learn.
Gian Maria’s ill-conditioned wife
Was bitten by a viper yester-eve.
“Then, I suppose, she’s yielded up her life?”
“No, sir—that ’twas the viper died, I grieve!”
“The abbey has been struck by lightning.” “Where?”