Until we heard this 'Frisco youth,

We reckoned we could blow!"

Sir Slosson paled with pent-up ire—

His eyes emitted fitful fire—

With rage his blood congealed;

Yet, exercising sweet restraint,

He swore no vow and breathed no plaint—

But pined for Good Old Field.

The ladies, too, we dare to say,

(If they survived that fateful day),