Page:The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth.djvu/210

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" ?A,CCHANA LIAN SON?S. From gip?l? underneath the hedge To the gTand coterie; Kind females still each other pledge In bowls of social tea. A JOLLY FAT FRIAR. A ?OLX.?' fat friar ioved?iquor, good store, And he had drank stoutly at supper; He mounted his horse in the night at the door, And sat w/th his face to the crupper. "Some rogue," quoth the friar, "qu/te dead to r?* morse? Some thief, whom a halter will throttle,m Some scoundrel has cut off the head of my horse, W'h/lo I was engaged with the bottle."-- ?Vhich went gluggity, gluggity, slug. The tail of this steed pointed south on the dale, 'Twas the friar's road home, straight and level; , But when spurred, a horse follows his nose, not ta/l, So he scampered due north like the dev/l. "This new mode of docking," the fat friar sa?, "I perceive does not make a horse trot ill; And 'tis cheap, for he never can eat off his head, Wiffle I am engaged with the bottle." Which goes gluggity, glugg/ty, glug. The steed made a stop, in the pond he had He was rather for drinking than grazing; Quoth the friar,--" tis strange headless horses should trot ! But to drink with their tails is amazing!" Turning round to find whence tiffs phenomenon rose, In the pond fell this son of a pottle; Quoth he, "the head's found, for I'm under his But I'd rather beed*over the bottle." Which k?es glu?gity, glu?ity, glu?.