The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

230 THE SPADGER BY JOHN MASEFIELD, JUNIOR (No relation to the immortal poet o( that name) DEDiCATED GRATEFULLY TO MR. AUSTIN HA'R'RXSON There was a spadger Went up a spout; There came a thunderstorm, And washed the out. The little spadger Sat on the grass, And told the thunderstorm Το its . And when the storm was done, And all the rain, The little spadger Went up again, There came a spadger hawk And spied the snuggery, And with his claws he tore That to There came a thunderbolt From the hand of God ; It hit that spadger hawk And killed the There is a moral Το this moral story— If you goes up the spout You goes to glory.