Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/He Took a Header

They met in a field, 'mid th» blooming heather; A punster, a ram and an old bell-wether.

No cry of alarm did the young man utter,

He simply murmured : "I'll pass the butter."

"And I'll butt the passer," observed the ram, "I ain't any Mary's little lamb."

" 'That tired feeling' I'll o'er him bring, So often caused by 'a forward spring.'

"I'll give him 'a header' he will not like." And he "cast sheep's eyes" at the youth and bike.

(W-h-i-s-h-! r-r-r-!-!-!)

Sheep, bike and punster lay mingled together; The youth was "a little under the wether."