So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
Of scores out with all men--especially pipers!
And whether they pipe us FROM rats or FROM mice,
If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise.
DEFINITIONS:--Corporation, city government. Ermine, furs used for
lining the robes of mayors and other high officials. Guilder, a
silver coin worth about 40 cents. Adept, one fully skilled in
anything. Nunchion, the same as luncheon. Puncheon, a cask
containing 84 gallons. Poke, pocket. Caliph, a Mohammedan ruler.
Stiver, a Dutch coin worth about two cents. Burgher, a citizen of
the town.
EXERCISE. In your geographies find all the places named
in this poem.