"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
⁠For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak—
⁠Pray, how did you manage to do it?"

"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
⁠And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
⁠Has lasted the rest of my life."