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The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

TO A BAD RIDER.

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I.

HY, Mr. Rider, why Your nag so ill indorse, man? To make observers cry, You’re mounted, but no horseman?

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II.

With elbows out so far, This thought you can’t debar me— Though no Dragoon—Hussar— You’re surely of the army!

III.

I hope to turn M.P. You have not any notion, So awkward you would be At “seconding a motion!”

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