Invented Moving-day!"

O yes!
Especially, if moving
Was likely to be proving
(As usual) a mess!

Why, look!
You've got no end of articles.
Sure to be smashed to particles,
Or "snaked off" with a "hook"!

You've got
Chairs, bedsteads, tables, crockery--
(Recital seems a mockery!)
You've got--what have you not?

What's worse,
Your things won't fit new places,
Your wife won't like new faces--
Your very maid will curse!

Your hat
And other things _do_ fall so!
And children they _do_ bawl so!
Good heavens! think of that,

And think
Of possible colds and fevers--
Cartmen that prove deceivers--