“Airs his slush”—to put it mild.

He will tell you how it’s mother—

Yes, the child’s of course not Sykes’—

Was a relative of t’other,

By a natural son of “Mike’s!”

How this “Mike” was Sykes’ father,

And the father himself betwixt

A duke and an earl—or rather,

When the parentage got mixed.

And so on and yet so forth,