The colonel thought this very cruel,

Took cold in his head,

And before going to bed

Put his feet in hot water, supped gruel,

Packed up the next morning and fled.

Said Bull to Theebaw, “I’m disgusted;

If my delegates are

Thus exposed to catarrh,

With a colonel you shall not be trusted.”

Whereto Theebaw answered with “Yah-r!”