From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Little Willie
Article-I.D.: csin.177
Posted: Mon Aug  9 11:50:21 1982
Received: Tue Aug 10 02:31:19 1982

In response to your message of Fri Aug  6 15:56:08 1982:


	Making toast by the fireside
	Bill fell on the grate and died.
	Now, although the room grows chilly,
	I haven't the heart to poke poor Willy.

  Some of these go a long way back; I remember getting a copy of RUTHLESS
RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES & MORE RRfHH in 1964 and much of the stuff in
it looked Victorian (the drawings could be faked, but Little Willy is not
recent). The verses weren't all LW; another I recall:

	Aunt Jane observed, the second time
	She tumbled off the bus:
	"The step is short from the sublime
	To the ridiculous."