Peter Newell, The Hole Book, plate 12

	Tim Nickleby had hooked a fish, And was about to land it, When—snap! his fishpole broke in two— He couldn't understand it.

	Of course the bullet did the trick;— It would have been more thrilling If it had punctured Timothy, Who was in need of drilling.

Peter Newell, The Hole Book, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1908, plate 12.

Online edition by Marco Graziosi, December 1999.
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