Visitor. "No; but I thought I'd just ask because my room last night had a concrete bed in it."
THE GREAT PETARD.
(Being some further reliable information about the enormous siege gun which is to shell us from Calais.)
This is the tale of the Master Hun
And how, on thinking it over,
He bade his henchmen build him a gun
With a belly as huge as the Heidelberg Tun
To batter the cliffs of Dover.
See how the Uhlans' lances toss!