Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!dartvax!rccall From: rccall@dartvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Little Willy revisited Message-ID: <1810@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 15:57:51 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.1810 Posted: Fri Jun 8 15:57:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 03:05:53 EDT References: <530@cbdkc1.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 13 Apologies to those who've seen this one too much, but Frank Webb's horrible mutilation of this poem makes me feel compelled to post a more correct version. Willie, looking in the mirror, Sucked the mercury off Thinking in his childish error It would cure the whooping cough. At the funeral his weeping mother Sadly said to Mrs. Brown, "'Twas a chilly day for Willie When the mercury went down."