The blissful Honey-moon is past:
The Pair have settled down at last:
Mamma-in-law their home will share,
And make their happiness her care.
"Your income is an ample one:
Go it, my children!" (And they went it).
"I rayther think this kind of fun
Won't last!" said Tottles [and he meant it).
They took a little country-box
A box at Covent Garden also:
They lived a life of double-knocks,
Acquaintances began to call so:
Their London house was much the same
(It took three hundred, clear, to rent it):
"Life is a very jolly game!"
Cried happy Tottles (and he meant it).
'Contented with a frugal lot'
(He always used that phrase at Gunter's),
He bought a handy little yacht
A dozen serviceable hunters
The fishing of a Highland Loch
A sailing-boat to circumvent it
"The sounding of that Gaelic 'och'
Beats me!" said Tottles (and he meant it)."
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