NO MASTER in mendaciousness, no keen deceiver I; I never know when any one is telling me a lie; The clumsiest of untruthful men I never can suspect, And flaws in simple honesty are things I don't detect. When someone says: "I'll pay it back in just a day or two." I never get the notion it's a thing he will not do; And when a reader tells me she is Mad about My Stuff, I take her word as gospel, never knowing it is guff. But though I may be credulous and easy and unwise, I know the utterest untruth, the leader of the lies; I know a man is lying, when, considerably cut, He says: "I like a joke as well as anybody, but—" |