Sympathetic Friend (to gloomy batsman, disgusted at being given out for a catch at the wicket). "Wot's wrong, Bill? Was it dahtful?"
Batsman. "Dahtful! I should think it was dahtful! I could 'ardly 'ear it myself."
THE TATTIE-BOGLE.
A farmer once, to scare the birds away,
O'er his poor seeds set up, to leer and ogle,
A raffish moon-face, stuffed with straw and hay,