And from the fury of the sun
They scamper most bewitchingly!
F. B. Doveton.
From Society.
——:o:——
“We are ruined by Cheap Chinese Labour.”
In Punch for January 16, 1886, a Parody (in four verses) appeared apropos of an assertion that Chinamen were being largely employed on vessels of the Royal Navy, stationed in the China Seas. It commenced:—
Ye Mariners of England
Who watch our distant seas,
’Tis very odd that you should be