Are you the home-born boss of all Siam,
Of fleet Mekong, and many-creek'd Menam?"
Mildly young woolly-face replied, "I am!"
His optics orientally oblique,
Rolling in manner sheepish, soft, and meek.
"Oh, are you?" snarled the Wolf. "We'll see about it!
'Twixt Western Wolf and Oriental Lamb
Equality is a preposterous flam:
Do you—as Tonquin did—presume to doubt it?
Fraternity? Well, I'm your elder brother;