Released him from financial cares,

And though his wife was strangely plain—

A lady of Peruvian strain—

She had a handsome revenue

Derived from manganese and glue.

Thus fortified, in Nineteen-Six

Alfonso entered politics,

Ousting from Sludgeport-on-the-Ouse

A Tory of old-fashioned views.

Alfonso Scutt, though wont to preach