Suck shrimps or lobsters equally well;
Suck cider till inward the barrel-heads fell,—
And seemed to find it a pleasure.
Well, after thinking a day or two,
This doughty sucker imagined he knew
About the best thing he could possibly do,
To secure the bivalvular hermit.
"I'll bore through his shell, as they bore for coal,
With an auger fixed on the end of a pole,
And then, through a tube, I'll suck him out whole,—