While cabs must crawl and ’busses must creep,

All long to say, from Fleet to Chepe,

“O, good-bye to the Bar and its moaning!”

Punch, September 26, 1874.


The Three Skaters.

Three ladies went skating at Prince’s one day,

And happy indeed were one and all;

For their hearts were light, and their dresses were gay,

But ’ere night they each had a terrible fall;