If we poor victims truly are

Now seated in a first-class car?”

“We are!” they moaned, then Barnum said,

“I’m sure I’d much prefer instead

Inside a cattle-truck to ride!”

“You’re right!” his fellow martyrs cried.

“Then why,” exclaimed P. Barnum “then,

If you are true, brave Englishmen,

Do you submit without a battle

To thus be served far worse than cattle?”