“Great praise our Burnaby he won,

And Calthorpe by his side,”

“Why, twas a very foolish thing!”

The little girl then cried.

“Nay,—nay,—my little girl,” quoth he,

“They gain’d a virtual victory!”

XI.

“And every one the Major prais’d,

Who this great fight did win;”—

“Then, after all,” the boy he cried,