And said “for information I would give a quid pro quo.”

I told the Margate bobbies all the trick I had been played;

And all of them distinctly winked and promised me their aid;

And when I go to them and ask, they’ve always “got a plan”—

But never to this day have got that great big vulgar man.

The Globe. January 1, 1887.

The Little Bulgar Boy.

(A woful ballad of the Balkans.)

Sorrowful Suzerain loquitur:—