Right knowingly he leered on us, as rolled from street to street
The shout, “The honest Pat’s played out; make ready for the cheat!
And if the Yankee dollars fail, as fail full well they may,
For never saw I promise yet of such a costly day.
Press where ye see the landlord’s scalp upon my hybrid pate,
And be your oriflamme, my boys, rip! rip! REPUDIATE!”
The Topical Times. March 20, 1886.
The Great Rent Case.
(A Lay of the High Court in the year 1865.)