The Craggy No-KishThe bold Lummie Low met K. Kiddle Day In the craggy Nantucket No-Kish. He tipped his high hat and ventured to say: "Please hand me the kinketo-vish." Then K. Kiddle glared and drew a step nigher, And thundered: "What is it you wish ?" And he swung his great club and curbed not his ire, And extended the kinketo-vish. Then Lummie emitted an audible smile, As he stared at the kinketo-vish; And his mad, moaning wail went many a mile Through the caves of the craggy No-Kish. And he cringed as his cry quivered sharp through the wold, For, ah, what was the kinketo-vish? Oh, with joyous chagrin be the tale boldly told: 'Twas a creepy, uncanny Quobish. The two glowered and fought for the kinketo-vish, And cemented their friendship that day, As all through the caves of the craggy No-Kish There sounded the joy of the fray. |
Quillings In Verse
John Edward Everett
(Smith Center: ___. 1912)
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