That made those glowering witch-men smile.)

The cake-walk royalty then began

To walk for a cake that was tall as a man

To the tune of “Boomlay, boomlay, Boom,”

While the witch-men laughed, with a sinister air, |With a touch of negro dialect, and as rapidly as possible toward the end|

And sang with the scalawags prancing there:

“Walk with care, walk with care,

Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,

And all of the other

Gods of the Congo,