Their livers active, palates clean;

Yet, thanks to fusil’s deadly force,

Fell indigestion comes, of course.

The Figaro, October 4, 1876.

——:o:——

Canto vii.

O, Caledonia! very stern and wild,[34]

And only dear to those who travel through you:

The poet says you’re lov’d by each Scotch child,

But you do not believe such nonsense, do you?