Nights, and puff the penny Piquewique;
Feast his eyes with coloured lanterns,
And his inner man with “cocktails,”
Soothe his soul with “corpse revivers,”
Steep himself in “maiden’s blushes,”
List the strains of martial music,
Mash the merry maids of Bertram.
Hence these Yank’ries, these Cowboyries,
Hence these Westeries, these Wigwamries,
With the customs of the prairies,