The Dutch have had second-hand flags to fight under;
And so if "Dutch courage" mean borrowed, what wonder?
Hiss-trionic Query.—Where exists the theatrical manager who, utterly disregardless of tradition and reckless as to the omen of "the Bird," would have produced a new piece for the first time last Friday night, which was Michaelmas Day, the day sacred to the Goose? We know of only one manager likely to be so bold, and he would not be so audacious as to defy the combined omens of ill.
Ichabod!
(As it generally seems now in Sculling Matches on the Thames.)
Row, brothers, row! But you don't row fast!
It's foreigner first, and Britisher last!
John no longer can sing now, "I says the Bull"