Barnum's Motto.—"Tout à fait La Shows."
MUZZLED AND PUZZLED; OR, "LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG."
(A Carol of Kentish Conservatism. Some way after Goldsmith.)
Good Tories all, of County Kent,
Give ear unto my song,
And spare your puerile intent
To do your Party wrong.
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There was a mighty Minister,
To power appointed late;
A virtuous and valiant Vir,
A Pillar of the State.
If one who doth fat oxen drive
Should in himself be fat,
This Minister seemed bound to thrive
As to his post most pat.
A more bucolic personage
Bucolics never sang;
And when he took that post and wage,
All round his praises rang.