ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

57 You are old" said the youth, '* and your jaws are too wea For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the bea — Fray, how did you manage to do it?" In my youth" said his father, "I too to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life" You are old," said the youth, *'one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so awfully clever?" I have answered three questions, and that is enough, Said his father. Don't give yourself air si Do you thin I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or Fll l^icl^ you downstairs!"