So dear father show you're a wise man and touch not that strap upon me."
While the learned youth plead, lo! his father upon that dread strap loosed his hold,
And thus he escaped from a whipping, Ignatius, the wise and the bold.
Nervous Jelly
(Written for Charles Donnelly, Evansville, Ind.)
One day when there was company, wee greedy Lillie May,
Took the jelly nearly all when it was passed her way;
And in great haste she ate it up with her small silver spoon,
But oh, alas, the Piggiewig! she was discovered soon