By lashing for errors they make
Then showing the right road to take.
And this, don’t you see, is the way
The whole world is governed to-day.
Men have long ceased the sages to pester
But bow to the rule of the jester.
Well—Ridentem quid dicere verum
Vetat?—If the people will hear ’um!
So, there, now my story is done—
And the moral! Why, that you see’s Fun.
Fun, 1866.
“What’s ’A-cuba to him, or he to ’A-cuba?”
—Shakespeare.