If with rush on growl, flash on low thunder—
Knocked over, but ne’er knocking under—
With cash on me lavishly staked—
If eye against eye glimly glaring,
Biped Brummy could quadruped scan,
Ring and chain with me, blood with me, sharing,—
Say which was brute, which was man?
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Punch. August 1, 1874.
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