Edward Farmer

“ When, finding no others were left them to munch,
They left off, and went into Benton's to lunch.
In marrying, as in pearl fishing, the odds are fearfully against us. It is not every oyster-shell that contains a pearl. ”

“ You'll have those fork-tines into somebody's legs!"
"Look out, Mr. Benton; there's one at your back,
On the top of the chaff-hole—just give him a crack."
"Mind, mind where you're hitting—there's one up the wall."
Oh! I thought it a mouse, by its being so small."
"No, no, it's a rat, look; and here are the rest;
There's twelve or thirteen of them down in this nest."
They are nearing the bottom, each sheaf they displace
Yields a rat, which produces a kill, or a race. ”