Give us eleven more! he roared
And stamped, and fumed and thundered.
Eleven posts, and then by Gawd,
We'll be twenty-two, two hundred!
A number rich, and full and round!
Two-two-two (twice timed ten)!
He stamped his foot, hard on the ground,
ANd roared, and stamped again.
Eleven posts!!! Is that too much?
For such a stalwart crew??
Pray, say not so, for if 't is such,
Then blazes be fer you!
Go back to sleep! Go crawl a hole!
Go, climb back on your shelf!!
If you cannot, to save your soul,
I'll post them all myself!!!!!


William Bendix Golightly
I Sing of Plumbing at Tiffany's
Brown, Whett, and Fowle, New Yorke, 1928