The much malignèd Afghan,

The loyal faithful Afghan, and the Czar!

Punch. March 13, 1880.


The Tichborne Claimant wrote:—“It is a fine thing to be an Englishman. Fool that I used to be to think so! I should feel prouder now if I could say I was an American Indian. For if ever a man felt ashamed to own a country as his native land, I do this.”

“For he himself has said it,

That it’s much to his discredit

That he’s an Englishman.

He would rather be a Rooshan,

A Turk, or Greek, or Prooshan,