And—send me some rum, there’s a brick!”

Scoad.

A very Dry Tale.

(To the air of the ‘Precocious Baby.’)

A monarch of Burmah, I cannot tell why,

With his sips and ‘nips’

For his parched-up lips,

Was plagued with a throat so excessively dry,

’Twas useless to try

To ‘wet t’other eye,’