Lambs, buds, leap up; the lark to heaven climbs;

Bread does the same; the price of baccy's brutal;

And save (I do not note it in The Times)

They make exemptions for evolving rhymes,

Dashed if I mean to tootle!

Evoe.


Sportsman (just emerged from the brook). "Four in, did you say? Dash it all—just my luck. Got my glasses all mud and can't see ther fun."