With their music playing chunes, down upon us bore;
And they bate the rattatoo,
But the Peelers came in view,
And ended the shaloo on the Shannon shore.
W. M. Thackeray.
Mr. Patrick O’Rory’s Account of the
Hampton Court Meet.
Och, the glorification of bicycleation,
What is’t in the nation can ever compare,
With all of them fleeting to Hampton, and meeting