Show The Height of the Ridiculous I wrote some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood And thought as usual men would say say 1 They were exceeding good They were so queer so very queer I laughed as I would die Albeit in a general way A sober man am I. I I call called d my servant and he came How kind it was of him 4 To mind a slender man like me He of the mighty limb 1 I III II These to the printer 1 I I exclaimed 7 And in my way I added as a trifling jest 1 t. t Therell There'll be the devil to pay He took the paper and I watched And saw him peep within At the first line he read his race lace Was all upon the grm grin He read the next the grin grew broad And shot from ear to ear He read the third a chuckling noise I now began to hear The fourth j he broke into a roar j I The fifth his waistband split The sixth j he burst five buttons oft y r And tumbled in a fit I Ten days and nights with sleepless eye I watched that wretched man And since since I never dare to write As funny as I can O. O W. W Holmes en |