TRYING TO PLAY

O A gentleman dressed in a high top hat Rode on a hobby-horse just like that. “Mr. Man, Mr. Man, O what is the matter?” “Little boy, let me hear no more of your chatter.”

So he pranced and he kicked till his glasses fell off, And he puffed and he choked till it made him cough; Then he stopped and said in his solemn way, “My child, I was merely attempting to play.”