The griddle-cake’s thar, anyway.


To “Auld Willie.”
(After Bret Harte’s “The Return of Belisarius.”)

So again you’ve been at it, old fellow,

The old game of four years ago;

You’ve given the Tories a drubbing;

You’ve had, so it seems, quite a go.

By Jove! and you were down upon them,

Denouncing, and all that, you know;

But what about Egypt, old fellow,