With a simper and a giggle,

Ears regaling, bidders nailing,

Ladies utter in a flutter—

"Mister Smatter, how you chatter—

Dear, how clever! well, I never

Heard so eloquent a man!"

Tongue of Mentor, lungs of Stentor,

Hermes, thou hast made mine own.

Cox and Robins own, with sobbings,

I'm the winner; Dyke and Skinner