LOWERED!
Rates, rates, rates, Of an exigent L. C. C.! And I'm glad they can't hear the language We utter so frequentlee!
O well for the excellent Chairman For trying to reduce them a bit! O well for those Councillors wary Who on costly "improvements" sit!
And "demand-notes" still go on, And our pockets are steadily bled; But "O (we oft sigh) for a tenpenny rate, And the sins of a 'Board' that is dead!"
Rates, rates, rates! Thanks, men of the L. C. C.! We trust the farthing now taken off Will never go back to ye!