"This whistling is a bore."

"All right," says the Baron; "don't you be afraid.

They'll whistle at night no more."

"I've lived a long time, Baron,"

Says Punch, "in the world, my dear,

But of a nuisance settled at once,

I never yet did hear.

Yet if you'll lessen nocturnal shines,

And let us sleep or think,

Your jolly good health all the commonwealth