I doubt if I'll be in time to get through; and as for that "Compensation,"
It is sure to stick. "Quick, Smith, man, quick!" Oh, it's all very well to holloa;
With a sack on one's back, and a bull on one's track, 'tisn't easy that counsel to follow.
My life's hardly worth an hour's "Purchase," if I'm overtaken by Taurus.
Such brutes didn't ought to be loose in the fields, to bore us, and score us, and gore us.
"Run! run!" Oh, ain't I running like winking? Reach the turnstile? I may just do it
But with its three wings—oh, confound the things!—I much doubt if I'll ever get through it!
[Left trying.
