A FUNNY HORSE.
Reading edition
Knock! Knock! Knock! I’ve been before this block More than half an hour, I should say; I am standing in the sun, while Miss Lucy lingers on, Talking of the fashions of the day. It is a trick you know, she taught me long ago, But now I am in earnest, not in play; And the world is very wide, to a horse that isn’t tied, I’ve a mind to go and ask the price of hay. There’s a nail in my shoe that needs fixing too, And I want a drink more than I can say; How I could run, with my dandy harness on! But it’s such a mean thing to run away. Rap! Tap! Tap! That’s enough to break a nap— There she comes, and is laughing at the way I brought her to the door, when she wouldn’t come before, That’s a trick worth playing any day.