The cab-driver sported a puggaree.
It played up the mischief with pleasure and work,
It played into the hands of athletes in New York,
Who licked molten Britishers hollow.
It set the 'bus drivers indulging in naps,
It made evening papers use up all their "caps,"
And it hindered the flight of the swallow.
It fogged all earth's creatures from mammoth to midge,
It made the bees swarm under Blackfriars Bridge,
And owls play strange freaks down at Chiswick;