You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought
Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day -
I like to dock the smaller parts-o'-speech,
As we curtail the already cur-tail'd cur.
Source: The Cock and the Bull
-- C S Calverley, (Dec 21 1831-1884), English poet, porodist, classical scholar, lawyer; The works of Charles Stuart Blayds [ps. C. S. Calverley] include Verses And Translations, 1862 and Fly Leaves, 1866.