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TO MR. "AUTODIDACTICOS."
(Per favour of the Empire.)
YOU gave us, sir, a task to try on
About a tiger, wolf, and lion;
And bade us tell, in flowing rhyme,
How much each ate, and in what time?
That task, sir, is no task to me,
Except, perhaps, the rhyme may be.
The time they take together, then,
To eat a sheep is minutes ten.
But since the wolf and tiger eat
Just fifty-sixtieths of the treat
Before the royal monarch cast
His eyes upon the sweet repast,
We draw by easy calculation,
The secret from this small equation:--
(x x x 5 )
(- + - + - + - = 1)
(60 30 20 6 )
Reducing this--'tis easy reckon'd
x equals just one hundred seconds:
From x the royal monarch's share
Is found to be one-eighteenth bare;
Whilst the fierce tiger's share is found
To be seven-twelfths in numbers round:
And to the wolf--oh! rare old glutton!
We give in parts of that same mutton
Just thirteen thirty-sixths, and find
There is nothing left when all have dined.
E. H.
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