to hear that new Limerick of yours," said the Commissioner.
"Thanky sir," said Wiggins. "It runs this way, your honour.
There was an old lady named Jane
Who sat on a fence at Schoharie.
A rooster came by
And crew like the deuce
But Jane never scared for a cent.
"That's great," said the Hatter. "Don't you think so, Miss Alice?"
"Why yes," said Alice, "but—does it rhyme?"
"Perfectly," replied the Hatter, "that is, under our system. When we organised this Department to facilitate business and avoid the waste of time looking for rhymes we legalised such rhymes as Schoharie and cent and by and deuce. By that act we found that where one man could only turn out 800 Limericks a day under the old system, any ablebodied-poet can write 3,000 in the same number
