Excepting in a plumber;
I am not such a fool, a "snipe,"
As says the Bard—my water-pipe.
For weeks I could not get a drop
Of water, it was frozen;
When thus congealed the thing would stop,
I spoke as would a boatswain.
For seamen's oaths the time was ripe,
I here translate them—Hang that pipe!
Then suddenly, of course at night,