Labby and his Babby.

Of all the would-be witty Rads

There’s none like clowning Labby;

He is the Mother Gamp of fads

And farms the Home Rule Babby.

Not even Lawson, of the Pump,

Whose jokelets all are flabby,

When on the water-swilling stump,

Is in the hunt with Labby.

In fine old Saxon flowers of speech,