Oldal 81 [81]
CATERPILLAR, 55
“ You are old,” said the uouth, “ and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet ;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak—
Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
And argued cach case with my wife;
And the museular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.”
K