, He draws the tadpole form along, He mounts the gilded edge before, He's up, he scuds the cover o'er, He turns, he doubles, there he pass'd,

Fool what bought that tadpole lake done middlin' well in disposin' of it, how-sumdever.

The Careys had a large sense of humor, from mother down as far as Peter, who was still in the tadpole stage of it.

But short shall be his reign: his rigid yoke And tyrant power will puny sects provoke; And frogs and toads, and all the tadpole train, Will croak to heaven for help, from this devouring crane.

But scarcely did one of them begin to grow into a conspicuous position in that little tadpole world and try a smaller brother or so as an aid to a vegetarian dietary, when nip!