Funny tales in your ribs till you splutter and choke;

But the best of the lot at a jibe or a joke

Was Farnaby Fullerton Rigby.

It was ten of the clock when the walking began,

And they started with Tumbledown Bill in the van;

And the rear was brought up by that excellent man,

By Farnaby Fullerton Rigby.

They went off at a pace I am bound to deplore,

For they did twenty yards in a minute or more

And a yard or two over, a capital score