For since the geneva and strong ratafee,

We are dwindled to nothing,—but stay—let me see

Faith, nothing at all but mere fiddle-de-dee.

O! the brown beer, &c.

Anonymous.

From The Universal Songster. Vol. III.


The Frog and the Bull.

As once on a time a young frog, pert and vain,

Beheld a large ox grazing on the wide plain,