LINDLEY MURRAY states that _will_ indicates a _future_;
SIR MATTHEW WOOD finds a _present_ derived from a _will_.
He scraped all day—he scraped alway—
He scraped from stocks and stones—
If he could have sold his flesh for gold,
He'd have scraped his very bones.
Gold was his good—untired he stood,
For nothing but gold did please,
Till he rested his bones, 'neath the churchyard stones,
And left his _Leg-at-tees_.
9. One Boa Constrictor, at the Zoological Gardens, swallows the
other.
The cunning serpent in the park
One day was feeling rather hollow,
So took his brother _for a lark_,
Or, just as likely, _for a swallow_.