Which he called “peccadilloes,” but others “barbarities,”
Sir Rupert declined to subscribe to some charities
Which Blutwurst advised as a species of “hedge.”
Then the latter blazed out;—the “thin end of the wedge”
Being thus once inserted, the matter grew serious.
Each spake words of high disdain
And insult to his heart’s best brother—
“Just repeat those words again!”
“You’re a scoundrel!” “You’re another!”
With curses and oaths, to repeat which would weary us,