Whilst Ink and Blood, one horrid flood
Did cover all the floor!
Then, Carbutt, Mighty Hammer, and Bramwell in the Chair
And Siemens of the Telegraph, did wish they were not there.
Whilst all the other members thought
It was a funny way.
To settle scientific points
In that far distant day.
But high above the mighty din, was Hawksley heard to say
“Ho! Gentlemen, Ho! Gentlemen, let’s stop this horrid fray!”