Stood out boldly side by side.

Stout Firthius sprang on Auceps,

And in a moment’s space

He hurled, with crushing ardour,

A Blue-book in his face,

He saw, too, McArturus,

With soup-nerved vengeance burn,

And with one shot upset him,

Fired from a new “Return.”

Then Cardenus of Barum,