The Death of Pockens

In 1891, pockens whose health had been bad for some time, published some work upon the mesoblast of the death's head ma. Happily got his opponent down and meant to finish him. The world of entomologists waited breathlessly for the rejoinder from pockens. But when it came, it surprised them. It was perhaps as effectual a reply as he could make under the circumstances. Another crushing attack was already in the press and appeared on the day before the funeral. People remembered how Happily had hounded down his rival and forgot that rival's defects. Skating satire reads ill over a fresh mole.