LITTLE AH SID;
Or the Chinee Boy and the Japanese Butterfly Bumblebee.
Air—"Little Ah Sid." (With Apologies to Mr. Louis Meyer.)
Little Ah Sid
Was a lemon-faced kid,
With a visage as old as an ape's;
Saffron son-of-a-gun,
He was fond of his fun,
And much given to frolics and japes.
Once in his way,
As Ah Sid was at play,
A big bumblebee flew in the spring.
"Jap butterfly!"
Cried he, winking his eye;
"Me catchee and pull off um wing!"
Chorus.
"Kiya, kiya, kyipye, yukakan!
Kiya, kiya, yukakan!"
Sang little Ah Sid,
That elderly kid,
As he went for that bee from Japan.
He made a sharp snap
At the golden-ring'd chap,
That innocent butterfly-bee,
Which buzzed and which bummed,
And circled and hummed
Round the head of that little Chinee.
He guessed not the thing
Had no end of a sting,
As he chased him in malice secure,
And he cried with a grin,—
"Buzzy-wuzzy no win!
Me mashee um buttlefly, sure!"
Chorus.
"Kiya, kiya, kyipye, yukakan!
Kiya, kiya yukakan!"
Sang little Ah Sid,
The Celestial kid,
As he after "um buttlefly" ran.
Little Ah Sid
Was a pig-headed kid
(As well as pig-tailed). Could he guess
What kind of a fly
Was buzz-wuzzing hard by,
Till he grabbed him—with stinging success.
"Kiya, kyipye!"
Yelled Ah Sid, as that bee
Stung him hard in a sensitive spot.
"Kiya yukakan!
Hang um Japanese man,
Um buttlefly velly much hot!"
Chorus.
"Kiya, kiya, kyipye yukakan!
Kiya, kiya, yukakan!"
Howled hopping Ah Sid,
"Um hurt me, um did,
Um buttlefly bites—in Japan!!!"
Modern Mangers.—Nearly all hotel advertisements prominently announce as among the principal attractions of each establishment "separate tables." It looks as if the "all-together-table-d'hôte-system" had failed by reason of "incompatibility of temper." Hence the divorce a mensâ. The long table with all the noses in a row down in the feeding-trough is by this time a remnant of barbarism. Yet the "boxes" common to the old eating-houses, such for example, as may still be seen in some parts of London both east and west, were "pernicious snug" and sufficiently private, too, for business conversation and confidential communications.
Serious, Very! Latest from China.—The Emperor has been consulting his physician, who, after careful diagnosis, has pronounced "Tung in bad condition, and Lung queer."