You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak

For anything tougher than suet;

Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--

Pray, how did you manage to do it?”

“In my youth said his father, “I took the law.

And argued each case with my wife;

And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,

Has lasted the rest of my life.”