With a cheering and beering, and sneering and jeering;
“My dear”-ing and leering at each pretty face.
With a scowling, and fouling the air with their howling,
And prowling and growling, and grin and grimace,
With a swearing and tearing, and blue rosettes wearing,
And a daring uncaring what things they abase—
And a reeling, and feeling for fighting, and stealing—
And that’s how the Roughs and Cads come to the Race!
Punch, April 27, 1878.