The flashing armoured cruiser!
And now let’s hope that wars may cease,
And power enforce a lasting peace,
Making a strife upon the seas
Absurd, with the armoured cruiser.
Isaac Read.
Parody Competition in The Weekly Dispatch, July 31, 1887.
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The British Ass.
(Roared by Sheriff Nicolson in a Den of Scientific Lions at Edinburgh during the visit of the British Association to that city in August, 1871.)