Said Bright, “For no inducement’s sake an admiral I’d be,
No Peace Societies again would ask me out to tea;
And people all would think that I demeaned me, as they say,
That Mr. Buckstone does the fighting Quaker in the play.”
“I would not be an admiral,” Mackinnon said, “until
Each cannon were subjected to my smoke-prevention Bill,
Else should I fire a single gun ’twould drive me wild to see
A curl of smoke upon the air, or even on the sea.”
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Diogenes. Volume ii. 1853.