But the rest are dead, as I’ve heretofore said, for their heads they were all sneezed off.

And this is the tale I have tried to wail of Ah Cheu and his little Ker Chee

And Tish Ah Tsu and Ah Chee, too, of the Snee Zee fam-i-lee.

—From “Lays for Little Chaps.”

TO A USURPER

By Eugene Field

Aha! a traitor in the camp,

A rebel strangely bold,—

A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp,

Not more than four years old!