I loved poetry in school, especially the rumpty-tumpty kind.

Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition.

There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […]

Most of them — both Atlantic sturgeons and the smaller shortnose sturgeons, also endangered but more plentiful — have been found dead along the shore, with injuries like long gashes and severed heads, suggesting impacts from boat propellers.