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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539034" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Perils of Invisibility</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old PETER led a wretched life -<br>Old PETER had a furious wife;<br>Old PETER too was truly stout,<br>He measured several yards about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little fairy PICKLEKIN<br>One summer afternoon looked in,<br>And said, &quot;Old PETER, how de do?<br>Can I do anything for you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I have three gifts - the first will give<br>Unbounded riches while you live;<br>The second health where'er you be;<br>The third, invisibility.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;O little fairy PICKLEKIN,&quot;<br>Old PETER answered with a grin,<br>&quot;To hesitate would be absurd, -<br>Undoubtedly I choose the third.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;'Tis yours,&quot; the fairy said; &quot;be quite<br>Invisible to mortal sight<br>Whene'er you please. Remember me<br>Most kindly, pray, to MRS. P.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old MRS. PETER overheard<br>Wee PICKLEKIN'S concluding word,<br>And, jealous of her girlhood's choice,<br>Said, &quot;That was some young woman's voice:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old PETER let her scold and swear -<br>Old PETER, bless him, didn't care.<br>&quot;My dear, your rage is wasted quite -<br>Observe, I disappear from sight!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A well-bred fairy (so I've heard)<br>Is always faithful to her word:<br>Old PETER vanished like a shot,<br>Put then - HIS SUIT OF CLOTHES DID NOT!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when conferred the fairy slim<br>Invisibility on HIM,<br>She popped away on fairy wings,<br>Without referring to his &quot;things.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So there remained a coat of blue,<br>A vest and double eyeglass too,<br>His tail, his shoes, his socks as well,<br>His pair of - no, I must not tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old MRS. PETER soon began<br>To see the failure of his plan,<br>And then resolved (I quote the Bard)<br>To &quot;hoist him with his own petard.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old PETER woke next day and dressed,<br>Put on his coat, and shoes, and vest,<br>His shirt and stock; BUT COULD NOT FIND<br>HIS ONLY PAIR OF - never mind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old PETER was a decent man,<br>And though he twigged his lady's plan,<br>Yet, hearing her approaching, he<br>Resumed invisibility.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Dear MRS. P., my only joy,&quot;<br>Exclaimed the horrified old boy,<br>&quot;Now, give them up, I beg of you -<br>You know what I'm referring to!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no; the cross old lady swore<br>She'd keep his - what I said before -<br>To make him publicly absurd;<br>And MRS. PETER kept her word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poor old fellow had no rest;<br>His coat, his stick, his shoes, his vest,<br>Were all that now met mortal eye -<br>The rest, invisibility!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Now, madam, give them up, I beg -<br>I've had rheumatics in my leg;<br>Besides, until you do, it's plain<br>I cannot come to sight again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;For though some mirth it might afford<br>To see my clothes without their lord,<br>Yet there would rise indignant oaths<br>If he were seen without his clothes!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no; resolved to have her quiz,<br>The lady held her own - and his -<br>And PETER left his humble cot<br>To find a pair of - you know what.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But - here's the worst of the affair -<br>Whene'er he came across a pair<br>Already placed for him to don,<br>He was too stout to get them on!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he resolved at once to train,<br>And walked and walked with all his main;<br>For years he paced this mortal earth,<br>To bring himself to decent girth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night, when all around is still,<br>You'll find him pounding up a hill;<br>And shrieking peasants whom he meets,<br>Fall down in terror on the peats!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old PETER walks through wind and rain,<br>Resolved to train, and train, and train,<br>Until he weighs twelve stone' or so -<br>And when he does, I'll let you know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Old PETER had a furious wife;
Old PETER too was truly stout,
He measured several yards about.

The little fairy PICKLEKIN
One summer afternoon looked in,
And said, &quot;Old PETER, how de do?
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