...whatever. Speakers of this sort remind us of Moore's conundrum, "Why is a pump like Lord Castlereagh?" "Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout away In one weak, washy, everlasting flood." Occasionally one meets with a saw-like action, in which the arm seems lengthened and contracted alternately....

...with cruel verses such as this one: Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is an empty thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spouts, and spouts, and spouts away In one weak, washy, everlasting flood. Moreover, it was painfully...

...of Lord Castlereagh to "water spouting from a pump." Q. Why is a pump like viscount Castlereigh T A. Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood. T. Moore. Dervish (" a poor man "), a sort of religious friar or mendicant among the Mohammedans. Desborough...

...senselessness as Pisces, or one which tends so readily, like Viscount Castlereagh and the pump, to "spout and spout and spout away, in one weak, washy, everlasting flood." At its best Pisces is a well of sympathy, charitableness, benevolence, and hospitality, and as a rule...

...satire, but this is evidently not it. Let us turn to Tom Moore: Why is a Pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood!5 That does it exactly. It is rather flattering to one's ego to be called a wolf or a scorpion;...