Yet you balance that eel on the end of your nose—
What makes you so awfully clever?"
"You are young," smiled old Will; "you don't yet understand.
The point—of the eel—you'd be missing;
But when you're an Old Parliamentary Hand
You will find it as easy as kissing!"
"I've caught an eel, also," observed the young 'sniggler,'
"I'm not, like you, beaked à la Toucan;
Mine's still smaller than yours, and a terrible wriggler;
I wish I could work it as you can!"