Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there’s nothing can freeze!

Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake!

Look close,—you will see not a sign of a flake!

We want some new garlands for those we have shed,—

And these are white roses in place of the red.

We’ve a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told,

Of talking (in public) as if we were old:—

That boy we call “Doctor” and this we call “Judge;”

It’s a neat little fiction,—of course it’s all fudge.

That fellow’s the “Speaker,”—the one on the right;