THE DISAPPOINTED BAT

A bat played a hand organ out in the street, And carried a sign “I AM BLIND”; But though all his music was joyous and sweet, His hearers, he thought, were unkind; For no-one who passed dropped a coin in his hat, But each said “Why of course; he’s as blind as a bat.”

When Billy Wilson swimming went, It took him half a day To reach the lake because, you see, It was so far away. And so, to stop this loss of time, When next he went to swim He tied a string around the lake, And pulled it home with him.