Envoi

Now don’t go and say you’d a dimIdea of these stories before,For I’ve frankly confessed them from Grimm,The monarch of magical lore:And if, by repeating, I tookYour time, I will candidly vowThis moral (the last in the book)Has never been published till now!

The Moral: The skeleton’s Grimm,But I have supplied the apparel,So it’s fifty per cent. of it Him,And it’s fifty per cent. of it Carryl.But still (from the personal severing,For it isn’t my nature to grump,)I acknowledge a measure of LeveringLevering-ed the whole of the lump!