Did they know at the time what they were about?
It’s for this that the press is groaning.
Truth. Christmas Number, 1878.
The Three Practical Men.
Three practical men went strolling West,
Out into the West as the Bar came down;
Each said to the workmen, “May you be blest,
For moving this obstacle out of the town!
For cabs still crawl, and ’busses still creep—