Versos English Peter Newell Fourteenth Flat

English poem

Fourteenth Flat

by (1862–1924)

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Tom's pap had helped him start his train, And all would have been fine Had not the rocket, raising Cain, Blocked traffic on the line.

It blew the engine into scrap, As in a fit of passion. "Who would have thought that toy," said pap, "Would blow up in such fashion!"