Acquaintances began to call so:

Their London house was much the same

(It took three hundred, clear, to rent it):

“Life is a very jolly game!”

Cried happy Tottles (and he meant it).

‘Contented with a frugal lot’

(He always used that phrase at Gunter’s),

He bought a handy little yacht—

A dozen serviceable hunters—

The fishing of a Highland Loch—