Here is a punning toast:—
“Sir Home Popham—and pop-home to all our enemies.”
A nautical toast is:—
“To Nelson’s memory here’s a health,
And to his gallant tars,
And may our British seamen bold,
Despite both wounds and scars,
Make France and Spain,
And all the main
And all the foes to know,
Britons reign o’er the main,
While the stormy winds do blow.”
Says another toast:—
“May the deeds never be forgot that were done at Trafalgar and Waterloo.”
Wellington is not neglected in the toasts, but he is not so popular as Nelson. The feats of the Life Guards at Waterloo are remembered:—
“The Life Guards: that washed out in blood the blots of Piccadilly.”
Another famous regiment is thus toasted:—
“The Scotch Greys: that made the Eagles look black.”