Page 630 - Child's own book

Now Gilpin bad a pleasant wit, Ah, luckless speech* and bootless
And loved a timely joke; boast!
Aid. thus unto tbe calender For which he paid full dear;
In merry guise he epoke: For while he spake, a braying ass
Did eing most loud and clear.
I came bccause your horse would Whereat his horse did snort, as lie
And, if I well forebode, [come; Had heard a lion roar,
My hat and wig will fioon be here, And gallop’d off with all hismigbt,
They arc upon the road. As be had done before.

Tbe calender, right glad to find Away went Gilpin, and away
His friend in merry pin, Went Gilpin's bat and wig;
Return'd him not a single word, He lost them sooner than at
But to tbe house went in; first;
For why *—tboy were too big.
TLencc straight he cam c with hat Now Mrs. Gilpin, when she taw
and wig, Her husband posting down
A wig that flow’d behind, Into the country far away,
A hat not much the worse for wear, She' pull'd out half-a-crown ;
Each comely in its kind.
And thus unto the youth she eaid
Ho held them up, and in his turn That drove them to the Bell,
Tbus ebow’d bis ready w it: This shall be yours when you
My head is twice as big as yours. bring back
They therefore needs must fit My husband safe and well*
The youth did ride, and soon did
But let me scrape tbe dirt away meet
That hangs upon your face ;
John coming back amain;
And stop and eat, for well you Whom in a trice be tried to efcop,
Be in a hungry case. [may
By catching at his rein;
Said John—It ia my wedding-day, But not performing what he meant,
And all the world would stare, And gladly would have done,
If wife should dire at Edmonton, Tbe frighted steed bo frigbted more.
And 1 should dine at Ware. And made him faster run.
Away went Gilpin, and away
So turning to his horso, he said, Went po&1>boy at hie heels,
I am in haatc to dine; [here, The post-boy's horse right glad to
Twaa for your pleasure you came UUP9
You shall go back for mine.
The lumbering of the wheels.