No more beneath oppressive fat shall porkers lie and moan,
But well-developed form and flesh, and very little bone.
By this fine Young Agriculturist, &c.
Now, isn’t this much better that the live-stock should be so,
Than as seen by our grandfathers some fifty years ago?
And may the price of butchers’ meat a great deal cheaper grow;
Then success attend exhibitors, and the Christmas Cattle Show!
And the fine Young Agriculturist, one of the modern time.
From Banter, Edited by G. A. Sala. December 9, 1867.