Desperate dash down the Falls of Niagara.
A request for a rhyme for Mackonochie elicited numerous replies, one of which, in reference to a charitable occasion, begins thus:—
Who, folk bestowing
Their alms, when o’erflowing,
The coffer unlocks?
Fingers upon a key
Placing, Mackonochie
Opens the box.
Canning’s amusing little extravaganza, with which everybody is familiar, beginning:—
Whene’er with haggard eyes I view