(I say it with a modest pride)
I scarcely once offended.
“It used to be my pleasant way (it always made my work seem
play) to take the air from day to day,—
Unless, of course,’twas raining,—
Upon the road to watch and wait from early morn to rather late,
but always coming home by eight
(Such was my early training),
I used to watch and wait, I say, and when a trav’ler came my
way, which happened every other day