Climb up a ladder with a flag,
Like any street-performing bird.
"She places sugar in my way—
In public places calls me 'Sweet!'—
She gives me groundsel every day,
And hard canary seed to eat."
"Oh, woe! oh, sad! oh, dire to tell!"
(Said Baines), "Be good enough to stop."
And senseless on the floor he fell
With unpremeditated flop.