And a Succession Tax on real property charges.
Oh! lackaday,
Pity Johnny, lackaday!
I denounced the bill in a voice of thunder,
And a House of fifty Members as "Fraud and Plunder:"
But they only grinned at my desperation
And my lack of all "powers of ratiocination."
That Gladstone he has quite undone me;
Like any bashaw looks down upon me,
When I kneels to ax for the squires some mercy,