These moth-eaten seats never hear,

Never fill at the voice of a “Swell,”

Or empty when dinner-time’s near!

Punch, November 8, 1884.


The Tortures of Tourists.

Yes, I am the monarch of all I survey,

My right, at the Club, there is none to dispute;

The whole of the papers are mine every day,

And no one esteems me a bore or a brute,