... Fifteen hundred thousand?... Hum!
However ... stiffen up, you wreck;
Boys will be boys—so here's the cheque!
Lord Hippo, feeling deeply—well,
More grateful than he cared to tell—
Punted the lot on Little Nell:—
And got a telegram at dinner
To say
that he had backed the Winner!
Lord Uncle Tom
Lord Uncle Tom was different from
What other nobles are.
For they are yellow or pink, I think,
But he was black as tar.
He had his Father's debonair
And rather easy pride:
But his complexion and his hair
