Small Boy: “I’d a bin hang, mebbie.”
Minister: “Yes! but something waur than that wad a happen’d.”
Small Boy: “After that I’d a bin pit in Madame Tussaud’s.”
The family name often appears in the public Press with more rhyme than reason. The following verse published at the time of the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 is somewhat apropos at the present moment:
When all are agreed in word and deed
That pacific intentions shall rule,
When armies disband on every hand
And tin soldiers are not used at school,
When rifles and swords are shown at Tussaud’s
As inventions quite obsolete,