To be Sir Bat-ears' share.

Mendicant muzzle and shrewd nose,

He quests from door to door;

Their grace they say—his shadow gray

Is instant on the floor,

Humblest of all the dogs there be,

A pensioner of the poor.


Harold (who has had the worst of an argument with his father). "All right, then, you don't get those six strokes I was going to give you this afternoon."