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163 RURAL ARCHITECTURE.

There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,

Three rosy-cheek'd School-boys, the highest not more

Than the height of a Counsellor's bag;

To the top of Great How did it please them to climb,

And there they built up without mortar or lime

A Man on the peak of the crag.

They built him of stones gather'd up as they lay,

They built him and christen'd him all in one day,

An Urchin both vigorous and hale;

And so without scruple they call'd him Ralph Jones.

Now Ralph is renown'd for the length of his bones;

The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.